Overview

• Hong Kong shut schools, curtailed most transport and scrubbed Wednesday flights, with five-meter waves and storm surge above three meters reported.
• The Hong Kong Observatory raised Signal No. 10 at 2:40 a.m., recorded gusts near 206 km/h at Ngong Ping, and said the alert would remain in force for a time.
• In Hualien, a landslide-formed barrier lake failed on Tuesday, sweeping away a bridge and flooding a town, leaving 14 dead and 18 injured, with about 7,600 people evacuated across Taiwan.
• Taiwan’s fire agency said roughly 124 people are unaccounted for as search-and-rescue teams work to reach isolated areas.
• Southern Chinese cities including Shenzhen suspended work and schooling, and local officials ordered large evacuations, reported at about 400,000 people in Shenzhen.