this reporter in guangdong province from the china meteorological administration was trying his besto update viewers on the typhoon. and here it is seen from space on the left of the screen, with another, smaller typhoon, to the right. this reporter in guangdong province from the china meteorological administration was trying his best to update viewers on the typhoon. and here it is seen from space on the left of the screen, with another, smaller typhoon, to the right. anna adasiewicz is a resident in discovery bay in hong kong. she told us more about here experience there. the government told us already yesterday that it will be a day off, all the schools, stock exchange, businesses are closed. it is the closest typhoon we have had in the past 20 years, it is meant to be passing us by at midnight at about a0 kilometres from here. i don't know whetehr you can see it, we have got buckets full of water passing by. we have got literally leaking windows. broken trees. chairs flying. chairs flying, a chair literally just flew away two minutes before we came online. it has been pretty bad.

this reporter in guangdong province from the china meteorological administration was trying his besteen,

and you can see why — this reporter in guangdong province, from the china meteorological administration seen from space — on the left of the screen, with another smaller typhoon to the right. we've been talking to some residents in discovery bay, in hong kong. they told us more about here experience there. the government told us already yesterday that it will be a day off, all the schools, stock exchange, businesses are closed. it's the closest typhoon we have had in the past 20 years, it's meant to be passing us by at midnight at about a0 kilometres from here. i don't know whether you can see it, we have got buckets full of water passing by. we have got literally leaking windows from the terrace, broken trees, etc. chairs flying. chairs flying, a chair literally just flew away two minutes before we came online. so it's been pretty bad. the pictures were from actually the main entrance to our block. we have actually had, just a couple of hours ago, a couple of trees falling down, cutting off the access to our residential area. but we've had a very good response from the emergency and fi

this reporter in guangdong province from the china meteorological administration was trying his best

china's recent floods hit hard in parts of the country not accustomed to them and its meteorological administrationipitation have definitely increased in recent decades. it's one thing to talk about climate change in the abstract, quite another to consider real human impacts. this whole town is having to rebuild after the recent floods and all these businesses, they've been completely trashed by the floodwaters and the people here, they don't know how they're going to be able to get back to the way their lives were. both this man's shops in hubei province were submerged by floodwaters. translation: it will take me 8-10 years to recover - from these losses. the government has not said whether it will compensate us. every year, flooding in china seems worse and official statistics appear to confirm it. in 2011, the country recorded six floods per month during the summer but this year, there are ten times as many. the impact has even struck the overall food supply in august, 40% of the famous rice crop was wiped out by flooding. translation: when i saw the water hit here, i cried. | the crops are gone