Schools shut, flights cancelled as Typhoon Ragasa nears Hong Kong

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Hong Kong: Hong Kong closed schools and canceled flights on Tuesday as Super Typhone Ragasa was planned to go to a financial center with a force under which officials warned that the city’s recent history would be most destructive.

The powerful storm pose a widespread threat to lives and homes, which ordered authorities in the mainland to close business and schools in at least 10 cities in the south of the country.

Ragasa had already dropped the trees, torn the roofs from the buildings and killed at least one person in the land slide hitting the northern Philippines, where thousands of people sought refuge in schools and evacuation centers.

According to Hong Kong’s seasonal services, the South China Sea wandered across the South China Sea, packing a maximum of 230 km (140 miles) per hour, while the super -typhoon was a very dangerous storm as he moved to the west.

The city of 7.5 million was preparing for a wide range of disruptions and potential losses, while Shenzhen, a close Chinese tech hub, ordered the evacuation of 400,000 people.

“There will be a serious threat to Ragsa Hong Kong, which can reach the hotoo level in 2017 and Mangakhut in 2018,” Hong Kong’s number two official Eric Chan said on Monday-in which two super typhones refer to which each one has damaged millions of properties.

Scientists have warned that the storm is becoming more powerful due to the effects of human -powered climate change.

The airport authority said that Hong Kong’s airport will be open but the next day 1000 GMT will be “significant in flight operations” from Tuesday.

More than 500 cottage Pacific flights are expected to be canceled.

The Hong Kong Observatory said it would issue its third highest typhoon warning, T8, at 0620 GMT on Tuesday, at a place where businesses are closed and most transportation is stopped.

Emergency management officials in Shenzhen said that “do not go out”, except for emergency relief personnel and people who ensure people’s livelihood.

The suspension measures that are being implemented in other cities of the southern Guangzhou province include Zhuhai, Zohai, Dong Guan and Fushmen.

‘Improved Precautions’

Residents crowded in markets and grocery stores to stock up before the arrival of Ragasa.

“There is some concern.”

Zhou Chen, in his fifties, piles a sandbag outside his clothes shop in Hong Kong’s Wanchai district, he said he expects his business to be “ruined” by water loss.

“The most important thing is to take better precautions, so I can relax easily,” Chen told AFP.

Classes were to be suspended on Tuesday and Wednesday, while Hong Kong’s Jockey Club also canceled the horse race meeting on Wednesday.

The Hong Kong stock exchange changed its rules to keep the markets open during the typhoon this year, the operator told Bloomberg News that the situation was “closely monitoring” the situation.

Authorities have called on 46 temporary shelters to inform the lower areas of the floods.

According to Chinese seasonal services, Ragsa – which is named after the Filipino word for rapid motion – will be near the center of Hong Kong and nearby casino bases on Wednesday morning.

The people of southern mainland China were also fleeing for preparations before the storm.

AFP journalists found that fresh meat and vegetable shelves were mostly naked at a supermarket in Bauan district of Shenzhen on Monday evening.

The rows of checkout were long in the stirring store when people arrived quickly to pick up the goods.

A supermarket employee told AFP that the bread had already been sold at noon, adding, “This is not usually the case.”