Still remember that there was a Severe
Typhoon called Vicente during 21st to 24th July, it was a
powerful typhoon and hoisted the highest Tropical Cyclone Signal No. 10 in the
early morning of 24th July by the Hong Kong Observatory. This was
the second time to hoist Tropical Cyclone Signal No. 10 in Hong Kong, and the
first was Typhoon York in 1999.
We were happy we had a day off of tutorial,
however, there was many accident happened during strong wind. Due to the fallen
trees crushed the cable and power supply system
in the Tai Po Market Station, the train suspended services. Yet, MTR didn’t arrange the
feeder bus service for the affected passengers, over hundred passengers
forced to remain at
the station and some passengers were angry
with the inadequacy service. Btw, I think that MTR was not at fault in this case, they were based on the passenger safety.
Also, there was some aftermath after the
typhoon. Many trees collapsed were reported, trees collapsed was a serious
accident, the authorities received 1033 reports of fallen trees, also received a
landslide report and 7 reports of flooding. Due to the fallen
trees, the bus routes forced to stop
services or diversion.
The
most horrible aftermath is the plastic pellets polluted
the marine.
There were six containers fell into the sea from a freighter during the Typhoon Vicente, and leaked six plastic bags which were
filled with polypropylene, there was total 150 tons of plastic pellets spread
the south
of Hong Kong waters
and beaches. These plastic pellets
completely polluted the marine, even the food
chain and fisheries. In the last few days many volunteers went to the affected beaches such as Discovery Bay, Lamma Island, etc., to clean
up the plastic pellets. However, there are numerous of plastic pellets so it
would be taken a long time.
People always said that
Hong Kong is a peace place cos it didn’t have many serious natural disasters
such as earthquake or flooding. However, the Typhoon Vicente really caused a big harm for Hong Kong.
