Hong Kong’s weather making life more challenging

All too common: Plainclothes officials and police looking at a landslide covering a road at Yiu Tung Estate in Shau Kei Wan in Hong Kong following heavy rains. — AFP

A WEEK after buildings swayed and the seas swelled under the high winds of super typhoon Saola, Hong Kong faced a new disaster: 600 mm of rain in 24 hours, a deluge that flooded roads, triggered landslides and shut down the city for the second time in a week.

Mother Nature couldn’t have made it plainer. With climate change, severe storms are happening more often in Hong Kong, as in most places, and they’re getting worse.