Super Typhoon Ragasa, the world’s strongest storm this year, battered Hong Kong with hurricane-force winds and heavy rain on Wednesday (Sept 24), forcing the city to shut down.
People piled into supermarkets, leaving little on the shelves, as panic buying set in and residents stocked up on necessities for fear that shops could be closed for two days.
00:00Super Typhoon Ragasa, the world's strongest storm this year, battered Hong Kong with hurricane-force winds and heavy rain on Wednesday, forcing the city to shut down.
00:13Roads were deserted as authorities ordered residents to stay indoors, while powerful waves battered the city's eastern and southern shores.
00:23Hong Kong residents rushed to supermarkets and fortified their homes ahead of the storm, stripping shelves of water, meat and instant noodles amid fears of closures lasting days.
00:35Ragasa, with winds of up to 200 kilometers per hour, is expected to pass about 100 kilometers south of Hong Kong in the coming hours while maintaining its Super Typhoon strength.
00:47The storm had earlier battered the northern Philippines on Monday, damaging homes, cutting off roads and triggering landslides.
00:54from the storm on Monday, the storm has to be first and that is the storm.
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