http://beijingcream.com/2012/07/there-was-a-level-10-typhoon-in-hong-kong-yesterday/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://beijingcream.com/2012/07/there-was-a-level-10-typhoon-in-hong-kong-yesterday/#comment-272822 Fri, 23 May 2014 09:37:40 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=4189#comment-272822 [...] We have since found out that at one point the typhoon was a category 10 storm (the highest rating possible) and about 100 people were hospitalized due to injuries from the storm. We definitely should not have been out in it, but we seriously didn’t know how bad it was. Day 2 – Disneyland, Pin Trading, and Typhoons By the next morning, the typhoon was a still a category 8. Disney’s official policy is to close the park for a cat 8 or above. But according to the Hong Kong weather center, they were going to downgrade the storm to a level 3 by 10 am. So around 9 we called park information and they confirmed that they would be opening the park by 1 pm. Everything outdoors would be closed, no parade or fireworks show, but they would be open and that was good enough for us! Even in Orlando, as season pass-holders, we can easily spend a whole day in a park doing nothing but pin trading! Seth and I fell in love with pin trading int he summer of 2010 just before we left for China and we have hundreds of pins. Zoe is a natural pin-trader and it was funny watching her race to get to park employees before Seth so she could get the super-awesome pins. And they did have great pins. They don’t have many people come through to trade pins (we only saw two other girls with pin collections out of the two days we were there), so we had our pick of pins and made some cool finds. [...]

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