An aerial photograph showing large inflatable Elmo Sculpture at a ship yard on September 20, 2025 in Hong Kong on September 20, 2025. (Photo by Vernon Yuen/Nexpher Images via ZUMA Press Wire/Alamy Live News)





A shop worker tapes a glass window in preparation for Typhoon Ragasa at a store in Hong Kong, China, on September 22, 2025. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





Aerial view of cars running past blooming bougainvillea flowers along viaducts on September 22, 2025 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province of China. Bougainvillea flowers are in full bloom along viaducts in Fuzhou, looking like ribbons in the sky. (Photo by Xie Guiming/VCG via Getty Images)





A slackline walker performs dragon dance at Shenxianju scenic area on September 22, 2025 in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province of China. The 2025 Shenxianju Cup China International Slackline Open is being held from Saturday to Tuesday at the scenic area. (Photo by Wang Huabin/VCG via Getty Images)





Sandbags are placed in front of a store in preparation for Super Typhoon Ragasa, in Hong Kong, China, on September 23, 2025. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





A customer walks past a nearly empty shelf at a supermarket, as Super Typhoon Ragasa approaches in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China on September 23, 2025. (Photo by David Kirton/Reuters)





Waves from Super Typhoon Ragasa crash onto a bench by the shore in Hong Kong, China, on September 23, 2025. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





Residents watch rough waves from the shore before Super Typhoon Ragasa makes its closest approach to Hong Kong, in Hong Kong, China, on September 23, 2025. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





Waves from Super Typhoon Ragasa crash onto chairs by the shore in Hong Kong, China, on September 23, 2025. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





A fishing boat is seen washed ashore in Calayan island, Cagayan province on September 23, 2025, a day after Super Typhoon Ragasa hit the island. Ragasa had already toppled trees, torn the roofs off buildings and killed at least two people in a landslide while lashing the northern Philippines, where thousands sought shelter in schools and evacuation centres. (Photo by Cristy Gaffud/AFP Photo)





Bayi (August 1) Aerobatic Team performs in the sky during the 2025 aviation open-day activities of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force and the Changchun Air Show on September 23, 2025 in Changchun, Jilin Province of China. The events concluded in Changchun on September 23. (Photo by Zhou Guoqiang/VCG via Getty Images)





Floodwaters inundate Heng Fa Chuen as Super Typhoon Ragasa nears Hong Kong on September 24, 2025. Hong Kong's weather service issued the highest level of typhoon warning in the early hours, as Super Typhoon Ragasa brought powerful winds and lashing rain to the southern Chinese coast. (Photo by Leung Man Hei/AFP Photo)





A woman walks past debris as Super Typhoon Ragasa hits the Central district in Hong Kong on September 24, 2025. Hong Kong's weather service issued the highest level of typhoon warning in the early hours, as Super Typhoon Ragasa brought powerful winds and lashing rain to the southern Chinese coast. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP Photo)





A woman holds onto a lamppost to avoid being blown away by strong winds at a bus stop in Heng Fa Chuen as Super Typhoon Ragasa hits Hong Kong on September 24, 2025. Hong Kong's weather service issued the highest level of typhoon warning in the early hours, as Super Typhoon Ragasa brought powerful winds and lashing rain to the southern Chinese coast. (Photo by Leung Man Hei/AFP Photo)





A person walks by a fallen tree, in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Ragasa, in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, on September 24, 2025. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Reuters)





A firefighter moves a fallen branch after Super Typhoon Ragasa passes, as he assesses damage from storm surge and flooding, in Hong Kong, China, on September 24, 2025. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





A woman photographs flooding in front of a shop in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Ragasa in Hong Kong, China, on September 24, 2025. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)




A man walks in a waterlogged street in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Ragasa in Macau, China, on September 24, 2025. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A man bails water from his flooded house during the passage of Super Typhoon Ragasa in Macau on September 24, 2025. Fierce winds, pounding rain and high seas battered Hong Kong on September 24 as Super Typhoon Ragasa headed into southern China after causing a lake burst that killed at least 14 people in Taiwan. (Photo by Eduardo Leal/AFP Photo)





This artist's impression shows a group of archaic humans hunting in a forest roughly 1 million years ago in China's Hubei Province. The head of the adult male individual holding a wooden spear in the foreground is based on the digital reconstruction of a fossilized archaic skull, called Yunxian 2, unearthed in 1990, in this image released on September 25, 2025. (Photo by Jiannan Bai and Xijun Ni/Handout via Reuters)