Most of Hong Kong and other parts of southern China ground to a near standstill Friday, with classes and flights cancelled as powerful Typhoon Saola passed along the coast.
The Associated PressPeople brave strong winds as Typhoon Saola approaches Hong Kong on Friday.Many workers stayed at home and students in various cities saw the start of their school year postponed to next week. Trading on Hong Kong's stock market was suspended and hundreds of people were stranded at the airport after about 460 flights were cancelled in the key regional business and travel hub.
The observatory said Saola — with maximum sustained winds of 195 km/h — came closest to the financial hub at around 11 p.m. local time, skirting about 30 kilometres south of the city's Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district. The storm's eyewall, which surrounds its eye, was moving across the city at night, "posing a high threat" to the territory, the observatory said.
In recent months, China has experienced some of its heaviest rains and deadliest flooding in years in various regions, with scores of people killed, including in outlying mountainous parts of the capital, Beijing.
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