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In pictures: how typhoons have wreaked havoc on Hong Kong through the decades

South China Morning Post photographers have captured the power and devastation of major storms through the years

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Typhoon Rose caused severe damage to a Hong Kong squatter area after making landfall on August 16, 1971, packing winds of up to 165km/h. Photo: SCMP Archives
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Hong Kong is prone to typhoons that can barrel in from the South China Sea and the SCMP’s cameramen and women have braved the wild weather down the years to bring our readers images of the storms and their sometimes devastating aftermath.

Monster Typhoon Wanda pummeled the city on September 1, 1962, with 260km/h winds and torrential rains that saw 434 people reported killed and 72,000 left homeless in what the Post headlined as “Hong Kong’s Day of Terror”. Photo: SCMP Archives
Monster Typhoon Wanda pummeled the city on September 1, 1962, with 260km/h winds and torrential rains that saw 434 people reported killed and 72,000 left homeless in what the Post headlined as “Hong Kong’s Day of Terror”. Photo: SCMP Archives
Workers remove cracked panes at Central Plaza, Wan Chai, after Typhoon York brought 234km/h gusts in September 1999 that hit Hong Kong with such force that hundreds of windows on skyscrapers imploded. Photo: SCMP Archives
Workers remove cracked panes at Central Plaza, Wan Chai, after Typhoon York brought 234km/h gusts in September 1999 that hit Hong Kong with such force that hundreds of windows on skyscrapers imploded. Photo: SCMP Archives
The three vessels grounded at Kap Shui Mun, on the north-eastern tip of Hong Kong’s Lantau Island, by Typhoon Rose, in August 1971, include the Macau ferry Fatshan which capsized with the loss of 88 lives. Photo: GIS
The three vessels grounded at Kap Shui Mun, on the north-eastern tip of Hong Kong’s Lantau Island, by Typhoon Rose, in August 1971, include the Macau ferry Fatshan which capsized with the loss of 88 lives. Photo: GIS
Torrential rains dumped by the severe tropical storm Mac flood King’s Road on Hong Kong Island in September 1979. Photo: SCMP Archives
Torrential rains dumped by the severe tropical storm Mac flood King’s Road on Hong Kong Island in September 1979. Photo: SCMP Archives
The boom of a crane on a building came crashing down onto Jaffe Road, Wan Chai, from 30 storeys up after it was felled when Typhoon York hit Hong Kong in September 1999. Photo: SCMP Archives
The boom of a crane on a building came crashing down onto Jaffe Road, Wan Chai, from 30 storeys up after it was felled when Typhoon York hit Hong Kong in September 1999. Photo: SCMP Archives
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