South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Typhoon Chaba cuts power and disrupts transport as storm makes landfall in southern China” – below is their description.
Typhoon Chaba, the third typhoon of 2022 and first to affect Hong Kong, made landfall in China’s southern province of Guangdong province on July 2, 2022. The storm caused severe flooding and disrupted civil aviation, railways, shipping in the area where it came ashore. The typhoon also damaged power grids in the cities of Zhanjiang and Maoming, leaving more than 230,000 households without electricity. Rescue workers have been deployed to multiple cities, but officials said emergency repairs including restoration of power may have to wait until weather conditions improve on July 4.
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Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.