Black Rain

Black Rainstorm Warning Signal Special Announcement issued by the Hong Kong Observatory at 6:40 a.m.

The Rainstorm Warning Signal is now Black. This means that heavy rain has fallen or is expected to fall generally over Hong Kong, exceeding 70 millimetres in an hour, and is likely to continue.

Because of seriously flooded roads and inclement weather conditions, you are advised to take shelter in a safe place and stay there. Parents, students, school authorities and school-bus drivers should listen to radio or television announcements on schools. Do not attempt to travel until the Black Rainstorm Warning Signal is no longer in force and traffic conditions have improved.

Please listen to radio or watch television for traffic conditions and further announcements on the rainstorm.

Yep, I noticed. It kept me awake for good part of the night. Thunder and Lightning! So, finally around 10am when I could be arsed up my bed, I decided to take a few pictures.

The warning says "take shelter and don't go anywhere". Well, I never really understood the big fuss over some little rain. But then, we rarely get rain like this in Finland.

Chi got a call earlier this morning not to go to work untill weather calms down. Good for her, can sleep later.

For me, the awake-keeping thunderstorm, really wasn't all that great. I had only 4 hours of sleep from previous night as I had to wake up at 5am to go for a business trip in China, and I got off from work around 22:30 (got back to Hong Kong around 19:00 and still had to go to office to finish up some stuff). So, having a long day behind me, I kind of wanted to sleep plenty and late today. No such luck.

Stupid weather.

Oh, and Chi bought me a € 500 mobile phone. Nice. Just out of the blue she bought that thing. I had been looking at the phone for several months already, but never really thought I could buy it. I really wanted it, but a bit too expensive. Or so I thought. Well, now I go it! I need to pay back a bit to Chi, however, since I can't just accept her spending that much on a surpise present.

Info here.

It's a nice phone. I know it comes with Windows, but it seems to be working fine so far.

Below pictures from today, from my balcony.