The typhoon Mangkhut, the most intense storm to hit the city since records began in 1946, required the city’s highest tropical cyclone warning signal No 10 on Sunday, 16 September 2018.

Siu Sai Wan, a seaside area where my family and I live at, was one of the worst hit areas. The whole estate looked like it had been battered. Bricks were scattered all around. Broken or uprooted trees were everywhere. A children’s playground was partly submerged. Sections of pavement had sunk.

My brother, two of my friends and I decided to help cleaning our neighborhood after dinner this evening. We moved the bricks aside, picking up garbage, swept away the leaves…