Backstory: My wife and I had spent 2 nights in a hotel in Shenzhen, China (from Fri 14 September 2018) prior to this, and we had left our hotel at 7am to return to our Hong Kong home. Knowing that Typhoon Mangkhut (T8) was drawing nearer on the morning of Sun 16 September 2018 with the inevitability of the signal rising to T9, we rushed as fast as we could to get back to Hong Kong through immigration, knowing that the Hong Kong to Shenzhen train would be closed indefinitely once a T9 signal is in force, and we'd risk being stuck in China. After miraculously getting through immigration and onto one of the last trains at 7:40am (the approx time T8 became T9), we managed to get one of the last trains back to Hung Hom MTR Station, where we arrived at 8:45am.

This video was filmed from 8:45-9:00am. We were en-route from Hung Hom MTR Station to our home in Harbour Place. Typhoon Mangkhut was already blowing at a considerably high force as any T9 storm would. I decided to take out my smartphone and film the areas in-between the 15-min commute home. Areas include a walkway, Royal Peninsula (residential area) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. We managed to get home safely after 9:00am.

This video was taken approx 2 hours prior to Mangkhut being upgraded from T9 to T10. Suffice to say, it was a VERY close shave! Had we not left Shenzhen early we would've been stuck for sure.