Hong Kong cancels classes, flights as super typhoon nears
Hong Kong closes schools and some businesses, while the airport will be prepared for a super typhoon, the most powerful storm of the year, most of the flights from Tuesday evening.
Fresh food and bread were wiped out of the supermarket shelves while the inhabitants were preparing to go down, and the sandbags stacked in front of the store owners stores.
The Super Typhoon Ragasa, who killed at least one of the remote island in the Philippines on Monday, will hit the Asian Finance Center on Tuesday.
Millions may be influenced by the storm expected to move towards North Vietnam and China Guangdong, where the authorities say they are preparing for a “disaster” situation.
Hong Kong International Airport, Tuesday 18:00 until the next day “a significant deterioration in flight operations,” he said.
More than 500 Cathay Pacific flights are expected to be canceled, Hong Kong airlines will stop all separation from the city, he said.
In many cities in the state of Guangdong, there is a suspended public transportation as well as closing schools and some workplaces.
Hong Kong’s neighboring Chinese city Shenzhen, 400,000 people were evacuated.
At least one person was killed by a landslide on the country’s Nothern Luzon Island in the Philippines, where the storm super Typhoon Nando was called, and hundreds of families were killed.
The storm was evacuated in the Philippines before falling ashore Monday afternoon. Schools and government offices were closed in large parts of the country, including the capital Manila.
Super Typhoon Ragasa – Equivalent to Category 5 Hurricanes – at the highest point on Monday to 285km/s (177mph) winds full of gusts.
Ragasa, Hong Kong “will” pose a serious threat “, the management secretary Eric Chan says that he compared him to two other typhoids who left him with severe demolition paths.
In 2018, Super Typhoon Mangkhut – the most intense typhoon to strike the city – wounded 200 people, wrecking ships and the demolished infrastructure, the air agency estimated economic losses $ 4.6 billion ($ 592 million).
In 2017, Typhoon Hato released serious floods and smashed and wounded more than 100 people in the city.
