Raw Video: Hong Kong Battered by Strongest Storm in 10 Years

July 24, 2012 from Russia Today

Typhoon Vincente, the strongest storm to hit Hong Kong in a decade, forced hundreds to seek refuge in emergency shelters and left dozens in hospital. Local transportation systems were suspended and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange delayed opening after the city sent out its highest storm warning overnight for the first time in 13 years.

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Typhoon Vicente

Typhoon Vicente struck near Hong Kong late Monday July 23, 2012 and intensified on Tuesday July 24, causing Hong Kong to raise its strongest typhoon warning signal for the first time since 1999. Explore this topic

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and de... Explore this topic

Typhoon

The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine, canard-delta wing, multirole fighter. The Typhoon was designed by a consortium of three companies, EADS, Alenia Aeronautica and BAE Systems, which also serially produce the fighter. The consortium works through a holding company, Eurof... Explore this topic

Storm warning

At sea, a storm warning is a warning issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when winds between 48 knots and 63 knots are occurring or predicted to occur soon. The winds must not be associated with a tropical cyclone. If the winds are associated with a trop... Explore this topic

Tropical cyclone

The Tropical Cyclone type holds all hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms and other 'warm core' storm systems. A tropical cyclone is a storm system fueled by the heat released when moist air rises and the water vapor in it condenses. The term describes the storm's origin in... Explore this topic

Emergency shelter

An emergency shelter is a place for people to live temporarily when they cannot live in their previous residence, similar to homeless shelters. The main difference is that an emergency shelter typically specializes in people fleeing a specific type of situation, such as natura... Explore this topic

Extreme weather

Extreme weather includes unusual, severe or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past. The most commonly used definition of extreme weather is based on an event's climatological distribution: Extreme wea... Explore this topic

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Raw video

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Hong Kong Stock Exchange

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) is a stock exchange located in Hong Kong. It is Asia's third largest stock exchange in terms of market capitalization behind the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and the sixth largest in the world. As of 30 November 2011... Explore this topic

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