# hong kong flooding

Two dead after Hong Kong flooded by heaviest rainfall in almost 140 years, prompting black rainstorm warning » A black rainstorm warning is issued - the first in nearly two years - as a record amount of rain turns roads into rivers, shuts schools and disrupts transport networks. News.sky.com

“The light after the storm”: Psychosocial correlates of adversarial growth among nurses in Hong Kong amid the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. » Objective: Healthcare professionals are highly susceptible to adverse psychological outcomes amid the COVID-19 pandemic due to their job duties. As the largest part of the healthcare workforce, growing attention has been paid to nurses’ adjustments to the pandemic. Despite the distress, recent studies found that nurses could still experience positive changes (i.e., adversarial growth, AG) during the pandemic. Research on the general populations has indicated that individuals’ stress responses, coping resources, and coping strategies are associated with their AG during the pandemic. This study examined how sociodemographic characteristics, secondary traumatic and posttraumatic stress, coping resources, and coping strategies were associated with AG among nurses in Hong Kong amid the fifth wave (i.e., the most disastrous wave) of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: Recruited through local nursing associations between May 24 and June 13, 2022, 209 nurses in Hong Kong completed an online questionnaire measuring the Psycnet.apa.org

Experts blame climate change for Hong Kong floods, warn of more extreme events » ‘We have to be prepared for what used to be extreme but what could become normal,’ says former Hong Kong Observatory chief. Scmp.com

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Heaviest rainfall in more than a century floods, paralyzes Hong Kong » Schools and offices were shut, roads were turned into muddy rivers and the stock exchange was closed as record-breaking rainfall hit the city and southern China. Nbcnews.com