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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 12:26:10 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

   We're safe, but lots of colleagues came here this week from e.g. Singapore and Tokyo, for the first time since 2018.

   They had booked flights home for early Friday ... but not early enough, as the T8 was raised at 02:40.

   reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 12:26:08 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     2023-09-01 20:15 Raised to T10

     The infrasound of the winds whipping the corners of our tower is actually making me feel a bit whoozy.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 12:26:09 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     2023-09-01 18:20 Raised to T9. This is now the strongest tropical storm since 2018.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 12:26:09 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     The center is not at its closest to us yet, so it will be growing stronger yet for a few more hours.

     #hongkong #typhoon #saola

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 12:33:25 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Woah. No, that's not it. It's the building swaying, actually. That's where the quesy feeling is coming from.

     Wow, this is really freaky.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 13:12:22 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • chiasm

     @chiasm By now this one is as strong as 2018 Mangkhut. Back then it took half a year to a year for the city to clear all the trees and other debris.

     It took two years to rebuild the seaside promenade in Tseung Kwan O, which was completely wrecked with concrete debris blocking the bike road.

     They rebuilt it stronger and with better affordances for flood water, so presumably it can handle it this year.

   • chiasm (chiasm@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 13:12:23 UTC chiasm

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     @clacke hope it passes quickly and the damage can be fixed soon?

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 11:36:27 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     I'm on around the 50th floor.

     The swaying calmed down after an hour or so, and so did the noise. Rain will be coming and going for days, but we had a few heavy showers during the T8 tail end of the main storm.

     2023-09-02 03:40 Downgraded to T8

     2023-09-02 18:45 Downgraded to T3, businesses reopening.

     Queue to Genki Sushi was incredibly long, so we're having Vietnamese food for dinner.

   • Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 11:36:28 UTC Kermode

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     @clacke Which floor are you on?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 00:07:55 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     20:45 T1
   • Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 13:58:49 UTC Kermode

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     @clacke
     > I'm on around the 50th floor.

     The tallest building in my town has only 5 floors! :-)

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   • Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 13:58:51 UTC Kermode

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     @clacke I would not like to be working up there all day in that. I suppose I could just keep clear of the windows. Or perhaps I'd get used to it?
     Frankly, I've always had to force myself to work at much lower heights like ant masts of only 15m or so.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 13:58:51 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Kermode

     @gemlog This was at home, but sure, the office is at around the 40th floor.

     Looking out the windows, at home or on the office, is not mandatory and definitely not something someone with fear of heights should do all the time. =)

     I peek down occasionally as a form of acclimatization therapy.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 13:58:53 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Kermode
     @gemlog In the little town I grew up in Sweden we had up to 8 floors. =)
   • Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 14:38:09 UTC Kermode

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     @clacke Ahh! You big city folk! :-)

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