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Hong Kong experienced the most rainfall in an hour since records began 140 years ago, leading to flash flooding that turned streets into raging rivers that looked better suited to white-water rafting than city living.
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Heavy rain was also reported in southern China, including in Shenzhen, which was reportedly readying to discharge water from its reservoirs, potentially worsening flooding in parts of northern Hong Kong.
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Sept. 8
A bus drives through a flooded area during heavy rain in Hong Kong.
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Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Sept. 8
Drainage workers assist a driver stranded in Hong Kong.
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Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Sept. 8
A man standing in the middle of a flooded road attempts to get the attention of a bus driver in Hong Kong.
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Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Sept. 8
People wait under a flooded bus shelter in Hong Kong.
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Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Sept. 8
A pedestrian waits for a bus on a flooded Hong Kong street.
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Louise Delmotte/AP
Sept. 8
A worker places sandbags to block water from a shopping mall.
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Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Sept. 8
Water floods a Hong Kong shopping mall.
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Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Sept. 8
Vehicles are partially submerged in a flooded parking lot in Hong Kong.
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Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Sept. 8
A person carries a child over the muddied floor of the Wong Tai Sin MTR station in Hong Kong.
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Bertha Wang/AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 8
Police attempt to clear debris from a drainage channel in Hong Kong.
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Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Sept. 8
A vehicle lies inside a patch of collapsed road in Hong Kong.
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Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Sept. 8
A man walks past landslide debris in Hong Kong.
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Daniel Ceng/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Sept. 8
Workers clean up a muddy road in Hong Kong.
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Sept. 8
A car plows through floodwater on Lantau Island in Hong Kong.
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Sept. 8
A car is almost completely submerged in floodwater in Hong Kong.
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Justin Chin/Bloomberg News
Sept. 8
A worker stands near a whirlpool as floodwater is drained from a road in Hong Kong.
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The region has been battered by two typhoons in two weeks, with Saola and Haikui wreaking havoc across southern China and Taiwan.
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Sept. 6
Rescue personnel evacuate residents from a flooded area following heavy rains caused by Typhoon Haikui in Xiamen.
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Sept. 6
Flooding in Fuzhou from Typhoon Haikui.
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Chinatopix/AP
Sept. 6
People wade through the water in Fuzhou.
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Sept. 5
This still image from a video shows rushing water flooding a street in Fuqing.
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Video obtained by Reuters
Sept. 5
Water floods a street in Yongtai in a still image from a video.
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Video obtained by Reuters
Sept. 5
An aerial view of flooding on the outskirts of Fuzhou.
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Reuters
Sept. 5
This still image from a social media video shows a flooded street in Fuqing.
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Reuters
Sept. 5
Rescue personnel evacuate a woman in a flooded area of Xiamen following heavy rains caused by Typhoon Haikui.
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Sept. 5
Flooded villages in Minhou County after heavy rains in Fuzhou.
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