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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Huge wall of water smashes through hotel reception as Super Typhoon Ragasa lashes Hong Kong |
| 2025-09-25 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A huge wall of water smashed through a hotel reception as Super Typhoon Ragasa continues to lash Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan. In footage shared on Facebook, an enormous surge of water dramatically demolished the glass doors of the Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel in Aberdeen, Hong Kong, immediately flooding the lobby. People can be heard screaming, swearing, and clinging onto furniture in a desperate attempt to not be swept away by the water, which completely destroyed the hotel's interior. Others can be seen falling over and being dragged away by the water's strong current. The super typhoon, dubbed the 'King of Storms', is the world's most powerful tropical cyclone this year and is on course to make landfall in China today. The death toll in Taiwan has risen to 15, and 124 are still missing, after Typhoon Ragasa caused a barrier lake to burst its banks, unleashing ferocious floodwaters in the eastern Hualien county. Nearly two million people were last night evacuated from their homes in Guangdong province as the storm barrels closer towards China's most populous province where around 127 million people live. Authorities in about a dozen Chinese cities have closed schools, businesses and transportation services today with the storm scheduled to hit between the cities Yangjiang and Zhanjiang tonight. |
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