Typhoon Haima, measuring eight out of ten on the authorities’ severe storm scale, shut down Hong Kong on Friday morning closing schools, businesses, stock markets and offices. <br /><br /> The city’s streets were deserted as nearly 200 trees were blown down by wind gusting at more than 100 kilometres an hour.<br /><br /> The Himawari-8 satellite captured this visible rapid-scan imagery of Typhoon #Haima in the W. Pacific Ocean on 10/20 https://t.co/koQjNSAA4N pic.twitter.com/psNkPAB97V— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) October 20, 2016<br /> <br /><br /> A fifty year old man was reported dead after falling and hitting his head on a rock by the seafront and between 8 and 12 injuries were also reported.<br /><br /> At the airport over seven hundred flights were cancelled and the city was estimated to have lost more than half a billion dollars in revenue.<br /><br /> In eastern Taiwan low lying roads were flooded as heavy rain hit.<br /><br /> Meanwhile in the northern Philippines people began returning to their homes after Haima, the strongest storm in three years hit them.<br /><br /> It left a trail of destruction that killed at least 12 people after triggering flooding, landslides and power cuts.<br /><br /> Evacuations of high-risk communities helped prevent a larger number of casualties the authorities said.<br />
