Reply #14 Dilmah's post
Did you know many foreigners in HK spent their 1st typhoon 8 inside the office. Why?
Well you see in HK, though the taxis and buses do not really run during signal no. 8 because of insurance reasons, the mtr runs on unaffected.
In those days before the smartphones, convenient internet, and a network of friends, many of us (just arrived foreigners in hk) did not understand much about typhoons signals and their forecasts. So if the signal 8 went up before the start of the work day, many of us didn't know what it meant and went to work as normal as the mtr was working.
You can imagine the disbelief one feels when one begins to wonder where his colleagues were. Building security and maintenance (and maybe another dumfounded foreigner) were there but colleagues weren't. What happened one wonders. Did I miss the memo about day off? Did I come to work too early? So you call a friend or ask the building security who then tells you, ''no one comes to work on signal 8". 
A similar feeling is exhibited by Americans who go to work on the day in the autumn when the clocks are rolled back 1 hour. They arrive in an empty office wondering if a joke has been played on them when all it is they are 1 hour early to work. 
So as long as the punter and the wgs live along the mtr lines, one can go on punting during a typhoon. | |
