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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 22:50:10 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   #hongkong has a well-oiled machinery when it comes to weather events.

   HK Observatory issues weather warnings: Amber rain, red rain, black rain, monsoon, typhoon T1, T3, T8, T10

   Schools, employers, government and private services have well-documented standards for when they'll be open, be closed, offer limited service etc, depending on weather signal and timing.

   The city thankfully made a decision relatively early on, before adding millions of people, to invest in separate systems for rain drainage and waste sewage. The drainage has margins for even the most extreme weather events.

   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 23:00:35 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      All of this is very impressive, but then it also makes it all the more surprising when you encounter the gaps.

      Today is just red rain, but some pretty recently built and nice-looking malls have dripping leakage from the roofs and put out security tape and rubbish bins to block off the affected area and contain the leak.

      Some recently built and nice-looking walkways are flooded by several centimetres because they weren't built with the appropriate tilt and drainage.