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AssPennies, to pics in Torrential rain in HongKong (7 September 2023)

Oh damn, for a second I thought it was a pic of that transatlantic flight that had to turn around due to an explosive diarrhea incident.

theodewere, to pics in Torrential rain in HongKong (7 September 2023)
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158.1mm (6.2 inches) of rain falling at the Observatory headquarters between 11pm and midnight

holy crap 6 inches of rain in an hour, that really is a lake full of water dumped on your head all at once

Pat12,

we get typhoon/monsoon season around this time but in recent years it has been stronger and more destructive than before

Never_Sm1le,
@Never_Sm1le@lemdro.id avatar

Weather has become more and more extreme recently. Back in 2020 one city in my country get 3000mm of rain in one day, while my country average rainfall anually is 2000-2500mm

malloc, to pics in Torrential rain in HongKong (7 September 2023)

Reminds me of Houston, TX in the aftermath of Harvey (2018). Our high dependency on unclean sources of energy is impacting everyone. Yet we continue to do nothing.

GHG 📈

🌎🌡️ 📈

🌧️🌀🌪️📈

SlopppyEngineer, (edited )

And then the deflecting begins.

“Climate is always changing. We’ll just have to adapt. And do you have any ideas how much it costs to change those emissions?”

“It’s changing a bit fast and giving us flooding, heat waves and storms right now. How about you adapting our infrastructure to cope with that?”

“Do you have any idea how much it costs to adapt? Bootstraps! Freedom! Personal responsibility!”

WtfEvenIsExistence, to pics in Torrential rain in HongKong (7 September 2023)

How to get electrocuted: ^

unreachable,
@unreachable@lemmy.world avatar

my first thought exactly, instead of worried being drenched or drowned

Damage,

It’s a bus

WtfEvenIsExistence,

Still can be dangerous. Some buses have electical outlets that lets people charge their phones, and water is just… 😬

Krukenberg,

Ah yes – the deadly 5V DC outlets

WtfEvenIsExistence,

It’s a 120V AC wall outlet…

Damage,

Pretty sure they must have circuit breaker

Krukenberg,

I might be blind and if so that’s on me, but can you actually see a AC outlet? I’d wager DC USB A outlets being far more common in public transport.

WtfEvenIsExistence,

Oh I’m not saying this particular bus, but in some cities like my city, some buses have electrical outlet so people can charge their phone on their way to work.

unreachable,
@unreachable@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/15f522ed-0e73-4963-b190-f44e6ee8f931.mp4

Kowowow, to pics in Torrential rain in HongKong (7 September 2023)

is that subway still working? if so that’s pretty impressive

Pat12, (edited )

is that subway still working? if so that’s pretty impressive

MTR is running but many stations stopped because either they got flooded or the streets outside are flooded

this is a bus that got flooded

here is a subway/MTR station that’s flooded: cdn.i-scmp.com/…/e55c8344-c070-48e2-a13c-e2b3e1a7…

it’s a wong tai sin station (wong tai sin is the god of healing in Daoism)

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