Storm warning

Well, that's it for the work part. Checked out at the office, returned the badge, cried.

Now, for the fun of it, Hong Kong has declared Typhoon Warning level 3. That's what normal people call storm warning. Level 8 is when everything closes, cabs dont ride, and people are encouraged to stay indoors. According to everyone, this bullcrap is supposed to blow over by tomorrow morning. We'll see.



And for the extra credit fun, Chinese President Hu Jintao has landed in Hong Kong and is either staying or is set to deliver a speech at the Hong Kong Convention Center, which just so happens to be across the street from my hotel and thus obviously on the route of the presidential cortege. To say that security has been high is to grossly understate the affairs. I have never seen the type of interlinked funky barricades they have been erecting all day, and the triple-Z linked metal fences...People are starting to pool up everywhere with video cameras, despite gathering storm clouds, to see the Dear Leader. Police officers have been stationed at literally every window on the two blocks leading to the entrance to the (huge) convention center.

I am getting out there for food. It's getting late so I doubt I will get any decent shots of the President's arrival but maybe the phone camera will do the trick.

Phone pic

Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor at dusk, as seen from Morning Walk at Victoria Peak.