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Clifford Lo

Your socks are wet and your curtains mouldy. The entrance to your building has become a skating rink and you've probably lost count of the number of  umbrellas you've misplaced.
But Hong Kong can hold its head up high, as the city has just survived its wettest June ever.
The Hong Kong Observatory reports that some time yesterday morning the elements consigned to history the previous record, of 1,083.6mm, set in June 2001.
'At midnight on Wednesday we had measured 1,057.2mm since June 1,' an Observatory spokesman said. 'But to 6pm today we have had 79.1mm.'
'From June 1 we have had 1,136.3mm.'
The Observatory issued a red rainstorm warning at 8.50am - 20 minutes after it had announced  an amber rainstorm warning - which  was in force until 10am.
'We are sure the record has been broken because it hasn't finished raining yet and we've measured a lot of rain already today,' the spokesman said.
The exact amount of rain dumped by departing Severe Tropical Storm  Fengshen, or Wind God, would not be known until today because of  procedures to ensure the accuracy of the Observatory's readings, he said.
However, with the weather predicted  to clear over the final  few days of the month, it is unlikely the  record for the all-time wettest month will  also fall. That honour belongs to May 1889, when 1,241.1mm of rain fell.
Fifty-six flooding reports were received  throughout the city yesterday and the Development Bureau had  reports of landslides in Island Road, Tai Tam Road and in San Tin.
Some bus routes  were temporarily suspended while tree collapses caused short-term road closures in Island Road, Tai Po Road near Tsung Tsai Yuen and Mount Kellett Road.
A 61-year-old taxi driver escaped injury when a  tree collapsed on his cab  near Tsung Tsai Yuen, Tai Po.   Traffic was also congested on Hiram's Highway due to flooding.
The Ngong Ping 360 cable car service on Lantau was suspended until 1pm.
A female hiker called police at 8.45am after she and a male friend were trapped by floodwater in Old Peak Road near the junction with Tregunter Path on The Peak. She told police the road had turned into a 'river' as floodwater washed down. The pair managed to leave the area before police arrived.
A man was  trapped on a flight of steps  as rain cascaded down them in Watford Road on The Peak. A  resident  called police who said  the man climbed a tree to reach a slope. He left the area before officers arrived.
So much rain has fallen this month that the city's reservoirs are now almost full, with the Water Supplies Department reporting that just three dams - Kowloon, High Island and Lower Shing Mun - were below capacity.
About 138 million cubic metres of water -  almost equivalent to 56,300  Olympic-size swimming pools - has entered the reservoirs since June 1.
'That's really a lot of water,' a department spokesman said.



Drenching from Wind God breaks record for June rainfall