When it rains...

...it pours here in Hong Kong. June to September is the rainy season here, and when it rains it really comes down - heavy torrential rain, not just for 30 minutes or an hour like a summer thunderstorm, but for two or three days. It can rain so hard here that they have a system of rain warnings and when it gets really bad, when the "black rain warning" goes up, schools and offices close down and Hong Kong comes to a stop, which is an amazing thing to see because that and a number 5 typhoon warning really are the only things that stop this town. Talk about a city that never sleeps. In fact a colleague who is making his first visit remarked on how the streets were teeming with people at 2am on a Monday night! As someone devoted to midnight snacks, I love the fact that you can always go out and find a place to eat.