Mandatory evacuation
I was sitting in a Shanghai office building in a glass conference room when the government issued a mandatory go home now, there is typhoon coming, order and I watched from behind the glass as workers ran down the hall and towards the elevator. I turned to the people I was meeting with, one a Mickey Rourke look alike and asked calmly if we should be panicking at this point or not and all of them, ex-pats, said, “dunno.” Meanwhile, a furtive glance or two out the window showed mopeds, bikes as well as buses, sinking under the rising water in the streets.
Shopowners began sandbagging in front of their stores as water rose and started lapping the entrances.
The news was zilch, zero as the government censored any news about the typhoon on websites and television.
A little disconcerting, I might say.