Supertyphoon Mangkhut Downgraded To Severe Typhoon

At to the lowest degree xiii people dead inward the northern Philippines.
The South PRC Morning Post is reporting "Hong Kong braces for waves upwardly to 14m high".
That can't travel correct tin it?  45-46 human foot waves?
The tempest is directly forecast to immature adult woman Hong Kong as well as rails farther due west toward Hainan island.

Here's the U.S. military's near recent alarm as well as rails forecast:

Joint Typhoon Warning Center

2100 hours, Sept xv

WTPN31 PGTW 152100 MSGID/GENADMIN/JOINT TYPHOON WRNCEN PEARL HARBOR HI// SUBJ/TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING// RMKS/ 1. TYPHOON 26W (MANGKHUT) WARNING NR 036        01 ACTIVE TROPICAL CYCLONE IN NORTHWESTPAC    MAX SUSTAINED WINDS BASED ON ONE-MINUTE AVERAGE    WIND RADII VALID OVER OPEN WATER ONLY     ---    WARNING POSITION:    151800Z --- NEAR 19.8N 116.9E      MOVEMENT PAST SIX HOURS - 295 DEGREES AT fourteen KTS      POSITION ACCURATE TO WITHIN 030 NM      POSITION BASED ON CENTER LOCATED BY SATELLITE    PRESENT WIND DISTRIBUTION:    MAX SUSTAINED WINDS - 090 KT, GUSTS 110 KT

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And here's the South PRC Morning Post's front page.
They're reporting that Hong Kong Has run out of tape for the windows.

And why this is a bad thing? Hong Kong has more skyscrapers than whatever other metropolis inward the world. 
That's a lot of glass:



And Andy Yeung via DesignBoom: