Exploring the underground tunnels that help Hong Kong weather storms
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Hong Kong is one of the wettest cities in Asia. But despite the torrential rains, the city is safe from large-scale flooding that routinely paralyses other Asian cities. It’s all thanks to a massive - and expensive - network of underground stormwater drainage tunnels that safely diverts rainwater to the sea. Follow SCMP’s Alkira Reinfrank on a trip deep beneath the city’s streets into a massive tunnel system that’s hidden right beneath our feet.
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Anyone who has been to Hong Kong knows that the city is full of crazy mega projects like these. Amazing is also the ability to basically traverse half of the city through underground passages and shopping malls, many of which feature flat airport like escalators to speed up the journey.
Even with these the 1000mm of rain that fell on September 7th/8th still caused widespread flooding in many areas. Imagine how much worse it would have been without them.
They opened the flood gates of Shenzhen, flooding parts of Hong Kong in the process, go figure. They did the same before with Beijing, flooding Hebei province and killing who knows how many people in the process as the announcement was given to do so while the process was already underway. That called affective catastrophe management, leaving no room for widespread evacuations.
The infrastructure is in placed to alleviate flood and is well-maintained. Most cities don't have such a large system.
lol..Check out STORM tunnel in Malaysia built way back in 2003 and it a dual purpose with car carridgeway and dual big flood water drainage tunnel system tht run across the city.
@@blizzard9954 u mean smart?
Tokyo underground tunnel : "Thats cute.."
A rare sight indeed. 1:49 legitimately looks like it could be Batman's base of operations😆
H.K under transport systems has plenty of surprises, specially its water ways, designed for flood control. It is remarkable as well as designed to last for many years. The Railway system is one of its kind, it is modern, and most of all connected all the way to Great Britain and the U.S, Thank you China, HK, Great Britain for all of these developments and succeeding improvements.*********NON AI**************NON REVERSE********
We here in Hong Kong are seriously blessed by our infrastructure!
Praying one day Malaysia government have the initiative to build such constructive tunnels channels 🙏.
Flooding have sunk many houses and lives 😢
This aged like fine milk considering how bad the flooding was on Friday
Didn’t seem to work too well. This video aged well.
It's mind-blowing how much work and ingenuity go into barely holding back calamities of all kinds.
intro is basically
"Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes. Together we can stop this."
Lol
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This is impressive to see! What's amazing is that we're not dealing with infrastructure from decades before, the city is actively building and adding to the efficiency of transport and life even now!
In "Hong Kong when it rains it pours" yes this is very true considering that Water is very Wet!!
Instead of draining it to the sea, why not store it somewhere. To use it during the dryer months?
Being one of the Wealthiest City we are a privileged bunch, We have plenty of drinking water from our reservoirs across the City with Mainland China providing us a backup and then we have a separate sewage water for our toilet, so you see we don't need to
1:51 this part reminds me of the backroom
plot twist: this was actually the backrooms and the spider made the video
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well this video didn't age well. (today is Sept 8, 2023)
Cool those underground waterway can act as a bomb shelter during war time but hopefully not during rainy season.
"when it rains, it pours"
Instead of escaping through sewers, you can now escape through the storm drains 😂
4:06 This is filmed in my home's parking lot lol, that typhoon is so destructive
Does Hong Kong have tours of their flooding system?
HK is an engineering marvel in many ways and even right now as we went from T3 to T8 earlier than forecasted warnings were sent out. Windows are taped, storm drains cleared and employees are sent home to ready the city for the storm. It is like everyone is aware of what to do and when. Very cool to actually see the tunnels. Would be nice to see a flashlight shone about the darkness and a map of the project.
How does this help (or not help) in the super heavy rain on Sep 7-8 2023?
This system was built for HK Island from causeway bay to sheung wan where the flooding was particularly serious every time it poured. You can see this system was very well built when the rainstorm this time didn’t flood sheung wan one bit.
This looks like the prebuilt backrooms
Look like the backroom
Brilliant engineering, Hongkong needs to help Jakarta which is very prone to flooding
Warga jakarta sulit untuk diajak maju beda dengan hongkong yang warganya berfikir untuk kedpn yang lebih baik.
Backrooms
2:10 This place looks like the backrooms but much wider
Fr we have the backrooms in hong kong
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basically very small version of japan tsunami barrier
Would be better if they catch all these rain water and turn them into fresh water not for drinking but for laundry, washing, cleaning, gardening.
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Hongkong allready have reservoir all across the city that more than enaugh for the cityzen needed.
I like this girl to brave to damage a pair of boots 👢 no frivolous woman. Besides the importance of her job.
i actually made a meme making it look like you are in the backrooms
Or just leave the ground open and unpaved? Plant some trees while you're at it?
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tokyo underground channels same
we found the backroom
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because yesterday have red rain
Nah it lasts for 3 days
And do you know where that tunnels goes
to cyberport out in the ocean polluting the water 😒😒
It’s rain water it’s cleaner than the water in the ocean
backrooms
rainy season prepared weather clouds and synergy balanced of clouds and ocean east west tele program haiyan and yolanda push to north energh up and down
Nasi Lemak will opens the sinus congestion, except for kids, haha. Get well soon! 🥰
Malaya politicians should learn from Hong Kong,they use bilions budget for drain float,but kl still hitting by float because is heavy rain
so trapped animals and people wash out to sea
Wait, if 2metres is just a bit taller than her. Then how tall is this girl?!!
Around 190 cm🥶
Or u can say 6 ft 3 inch... That's alot man.. I m 5'10 😞
Bros tall
Please return HK to Britain. Thank you.
carry on playing your 32 bit games in Philippines. thank you
Chinese backrooms
Sweet lady
Bukannyan bikin tunnel gini, malah bikin sumur resapan 💩
Nyindir yg di jkt ya😝
Kita butuh naturalisasi bukan tunnel gede yang melanggar sunnatullah
Indo cannot build and maintain this system
pacific ocean push energy to west of north nov 8 2013 yoland haiyan push energy to north west usa and canada alaska arctic teleput change direction of bad weather go back pacific ocean activated radar
oihiohiohi、
This girl has bad accent
no i like it
@@bootylicker90000 my opinion
Hk is flooding now 🙄
Backrooms