blogsey,
assuming you are staying in the headland hotel you can see from your window the beautiful green hills of lantau, hk's largest island. you will notice several red/brown scars on the lovely green mountains - where we suffered a number of landslips last saturday, as a result of 145mm of rain in 1 hr, followed by a further 300mm.
one of the results of the landslides across the channel in Tuen Mun was the death of 2 people, crushed under a 20 ton wall of concrete.
Some video footage of the ladslides:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2uTKyK1c9k
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=p4cCTH8CM2U
Welcome to Hong Kong.
Regards,
N1 Vibes
PS - this rainfall was the highest recorde since records began in HKG over 150yrs ago. The next highest rainfall record was just 2 years ago in 2006....