not sure if this has been discussed in the past, but do the girls work during a typhoon?  everyone else isn't allowed to work and it seems like no one even leaves the home.  wouldn't this be the perfect time to visit a walkup or call a HG?

or how about a macau trip, if the ferries still run..  no competition means all the girls to choose from!

they are always working, since most of the "work" is done indoors, there would not be a break in service because of a typhoon.

even if the ferries are running, isn't it a little dangerous to be riding them in a typhoon?  perhaps it is better to get there right before the typhoon hits, you might be able to negotiate a good price for an overnight

I can ride a girl anytime! Typhoon or not? Oh you meant the ferry?!
Ferries stop when the typhoon gets too strong (hence the warning so people have time to go home before the hit). For the typhoon due today, its a tropical storm, doubt it'll affect the wg industry! ;)

I stay home during T8 and shag the wife

Good whole sum activity and good for the marriage

keep on mongering

All the the out-call girls won't be working I guess. Unless they are getting paid high for the session.
But all the in-call girls will surely be working.
No one would be willing to out for a punt in a bad typhoon unless they are too horny or something like that.
But definitely, the only advantage is that you would be able to to select from a wide range of WGs.
Also, you might have the upper hand while negotiating. Fall in demand=> Decrease in Price

Clearly they do. I just came home from a punt. (typhoon 3)

i don't think anyone going to go punting now..winds are strong as hell and rain coming down. you'll look like shit before you get to a punt

What better place to ride out a typhoon than hunkered down in a macau sauna with all the wg's stuck there and no new customers arriving

It should be fine for HG.  I do feel sorry for the SGs who have to work though.  They'll be battered by the elements if not by mamasan.  Can't imagine anyone being in the streets for too long with 100 mph winds.

Your question is just like asking whether people go to work/ office during a typhoon.
I think it's really their choice if they think they can make it to work then they'll still travel but if it's almost impossible for them to travel, i think they would prefer to just stay home coz they have a valid reason to be absent.

Isn't McDonald's and places like 7-11 open?

There's some cute girls working there and they get 1/15 of what WGs make per hour.

Most of them work, though you could agree that some will stay home. But they will work, just call?

I think the most difficult part is the transport.  Many taxi drivers stop working once T8, and most of them get called out or reserved, so it's very difficult to get transport to the WG.

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.

ouch! yes, the MTR runs. but the timing of calling Signal 8 is crucial, as everyone heads home if they think S8 will be "hoisted" (love that term). ppl with a ferry-commute have it the worst--there are often angry folks at the dock, having missed the last ferry.

i remember Typhoon York in '99--it was Signal TEN before breakfast. u really don't wanna go out when 8 or above is hoisted. i went out the next day and the grooves in the sidewalks were filled with ground glass and dirt. u don't want to be hit by flying debris, so stay indoors.

a friend was trapped in the Hotel Lisboa once during a bad typhoon. he said it was great: the gals had no clients so they were desperate, he wd bargain them down mercilessly--probably the only time Lisboa racetrack girls wd actually bargain...

JtB

I guess the inclement weather doesn't shut down the lisboa race track race as it would a real race track even like the macau grand prix. what a hoot the girls pissed off and taking laps with no custom.

I wish I would be so fortunate to be stuck in macau during a typhoon.

Keep on mongering

You guys might want to follow Hong Kong's observatory Twitter account. Timely tweets delivered in case of bad weather. It helped me remind to bring my umbrella to work this morning.

https://twitter.com/#!/ObservatoryHK

Interesting comment about the conditions of Lisboa's race track during a typhoon. In the old days, the bulk of macau's visitors were from HK and they came by ferry. Usually the ferry services are suspended upon signal 3 is hoisted, too dangerous to wait until signal 8 to be hoisted to continue ferry services.

So to go through a dead period of 14 hours (usually 4 hours of signal 3 before signal 8 + 8 hours average of signal 8 + another 2 hours of signal 3 after signal 8 is lowered) of no customers would have driven those race track girls crazy and desperate. I guess your friend correctly assessed his advantaged and bargained hard.

Now these days, the bulk of macau's customers are from China and they come over via a land border crossing that isn't so much affected by typhoons. So I wonder if these days the same holds the same when it comes to the possibility of hard bargaining during typhoons.  I can only hope that the race track girls are still very dependent on HK punters not the mainland clients who are too busy playing baccarat.


On another thing about typhoons that come directly or close to HK. Though I would not normally recommend anyone to go walking about during something as powerful as a signal 10, there is a period of about 30 mins or so of calmness when the eye of storm passes overhead. This would be the best chance to run to the wg walkup (after of course waiting at an mtr exit for the eye to pass overhead, signaling the coast is clear). If you plan it right, you will be stuck in the walkup after the eye has passed which can lead to long extended periods of tender GFE for FOC.

from here, this would appear a strange thread to me haha

i am having visions of super wild sessions in middle of some super typhoon!