Resident describes 'terrifying' moment 120mph winds hit Hong Kong

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Super Typhoon Ragasa: London mother tells of 'terrifying' moment 120mph winds hit Hong KongThe Standard speaks to Hong Kong resident Sarah Millson as she describes "terrifying" night during one of the strongest typhoons in years hits Hong Kong.

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00:00So it's only been in the last couple of hours, really, that we've been able to leave the house.

00:07The highest storm signal, which is called a T10 here, that was raised at about 2.40 a.m.

00:17And I think it was for over 10 hours, so you can't leave your house.

00:21It was a hurricane force wind.

00:24The noise was incredible.

00:25I mean, we were all sleeping together, the three of us, and the noise was waking us up in the night.

00:31It was really, you know, lots of banging, lots of roaring wind.

00:36So, yeah, it's only now we've been able to come out and see that, you know, trees are down.

00:40Well, it's quite worrying because you never know what might fly off someone else's roof that might land on your place.

00:48So it was pretty, at some points, I would say it was quite terrifying hearing the noises that were coming from outside.

00:55There was really a feeling before this one that nobody wanted to take a chance.

01:01You know, everybody was out with sandbags.

01:04Everybody was boarding places up, pulling their rooftops in.

01:08So it really felt this time that this was something bigger.

01:11You know, we added from there, you know, where you're going.

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