Hong Kong Battered! Super Typhoon Saola, Storm Surge Bombards China Without Mercy Guangdong province’s meteorological bureau said the powerful storm churned into an outlying district of the city of Zhuhai, just south of Hong Kong at 3.30am local time. On Friday, 780,000 people in Guangdong were moved away from areas at risk, as were 100,000 others in neighbouring Fujian province. More than 80,000 fishing vessels returned to port.