Typhoon in Hong Kong 1953

Huge waves slash the quayside of Hong Kong in 1953 causing many victims specially under squatters. See more of my videoclips on HK under MichaelRogge, or visit my page
www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/Film_DVDlijst.html
See all my 70 clips on old Hong Kong here:
www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A08F26F648CE6143

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• typhoon
• 1953
• hong
• kong
• harbour
• port
• michael
• rogge

[stanchokaiyeung]

Michale,

I don't think there are any other clips in Utube that can touch so many people in this world. Your film clips just like treasure to us who were living in Hong Kong at one time and yet are not living there anymore. I've been living Canada for the last 30 some odd years now and been back to Hong Kong many times. But can't kick the feeling of those old memory when I was there as a youth. Please give us more if you still have any in your collection.

[MichaelRogge]

Thanks, people who know, or have known HK, are my most grateful audience in the world! I shall add a few more clips by and by, but the end is nearing! Not of my clips as I shall be adding more on different countries and subjects. Moreover a series of shorts have been made, based on my clips, accompanied by my comments by AETN all Asian Network.

[sicilianmansi]

Michael,would you tell us why you was disappointed when you back HK in 1990?

Too crowd or over development?

[MichaelRogge]

Indeed too crowded, but more that I did not recognize the Hong Kong I used to live in anymore. My house in MacDonnell Road, my office in Marina House, Queen's Road, Pol Lin Shi monastry on Lantau island, Shatin, all had gone.

[maestrovso]

@MichaelRogge

Dear Mr. Rogge. I can surely identify how disappointed you feel. I returned to HK last and this year after more than 30 years. Though all the places I lived and schools (too many as I kept getting expelled) I attended are all there, the changes are immense. There is little left of the quaint by gone era, especially the food and the people. The New Territory is the worst. I really miss the colony era.

[MichaelRogge]

@maestrovso I found Shatin the worst example of spoiling a delightful landscape!

[Prodigal318]

係 Michael Rogge 自己影既, 佢係 1950 年代香港一間荷蘭銀行工作, 佢係自己其他短片既 comment 有講過.

P.S. Michael you have done a great job, those clips are priceless.

[chucky0404]

I wonder why the typhoon in the past was much stronger than today. I think the reason was that there were not many higher buildings to contain the wind as partitions.

[honolulu274]

Cool

[leonardphill25]

Your video is popular on Amman

[markmartinez717]

This video went viral on Bhutan

[meganstephen83]

so sad

[xXxdaguitarfreakxXx]

i would have surfed that like crazy

[EmperorChiCheung]

The year my mother was born.

[princessbobo910]

Wow! So scary! I never know that the waves can be so high. Like I'm watching "The pirates of Carribean ".