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tenderfoot

(8,425 posts) Mon Sep 17, 2018, 11:53 AM Sep 2018

Terrifying videos from a "Super Typhoon" ravaging Hong Kong

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Terrifying videos from a "Super Typhoon" ravaging Hong Kong (Original Post) tenderfoot Sep 2018 OP

Yikes! unblock Sep 2018 #1

There are some seriously tall buildings in Hong Kong these days. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2018 #2

Think About the Wind Tunnell Affect Stallion Sep 2018 #4

Not just that, think of the sway! A HERETIC I AM Sep 2018 #7

WOW, very scary. dewsgirl Sep 2018 #3

Terrifying. smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #5

If we ever got a storm like that in KCMO leftyladyfrommo Sep 2018 #6

My former home in the early 80's ... went through a pretty bad one in '80 I believe ... mr_lebowski Sep 2018 #8

unblock

(52,185 posts)

1. Yikes!

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 11:58 AM

Sep 2018

A HERETIC I AM

(24,365 posts)

2. There are some seriously tall buildings in Hong Kong these days.

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 12:05 PM

Sep 2018

4 being over 1000' tall

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Kowloon_Panorama_by_Ryan_Cheng_2010.jp

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Stallion

(6,474 posts)

4. Think About the Wind Tunnell Affect

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 01:53 PM

Sep 2018

A HERETIC I AM

(24,365 posts)

7. Not just that, think of the sway!

Reply to Stallion (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 02:29 PM

Sep 2018

One of the videos I found using the OP's link showed a pool on an upper floor of a Marriott in Macau that looked as if it was a ground level pool in an earthquake. Another showed a guys aquarium swaying back and forth.

That's basically a Hurricane Katrina going through New York.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)

3. WOW, very scary.

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 12:24 PM

Sep 2018

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

5. Terrifying.

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 02:00 PM

Sep 2018

Just watching that building sway was enough to make me want to vomit. I would completely freak out if I was living in a building like that.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,868 posts)

6. If we ever got a storm like that in KCMO

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Mon Sep 17, 2018, 02:11 PM

Sep 2018

There would be no city left. All our huge trees would just come down.

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

8. My former home in the early 80's ... went through a pretty bad one in '80 I believe ...

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2018, 03:31 PM

Sep 2018

Could feel our 32 story building swaying slightly ... it was crazy how hard the wind was blowing and rain coming down but it wasn't THIS bad ... hope everyone made it out alive though given how many live on boats there, it's pretty unthinkable that a lot of people didn't perish.

#HKSpirit!!!

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