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Typhoon Mangkhut inspires DBIS students through creative writing

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Cited as Hong Kong’s most intense storm on record since 1946, Severe Typhoon Mangkhut wreaked havoc last weekend bringing extensive damage to the region. In response, students at Discovery Bay International School were inspired to create pieces about last weekend’s storm.


Typhoon Mangkhut

Between each roar of thunder,

I heard the glass shaking and the wind humming.

I saw the waves angrily lashing the rocks and bouncing back.

I was so scared,

I couldn’t help but cry,

I kept reminding myself,

It will be over in a blink of an eye.

-Noga Galor, Year 8 


Thunder laughed,

Wind cackled,

As a life raft,

Was sent to sea.

Water rushed ,

Like it was late,

As walkways were crushed,

By the waves.

Rain roared,

Wind soared,

As people prayed to the Lord,

For saviour.

Glass smashed,

As a tree hit with force,

Onto the house floor water splashed,

Splish, splosh.

As fast as lightning,

It was over,

The experience truly frightening,

But it was okay,

For the STORM had passed.

– Rea Kim, Year 8 


The day the typhoon came was hazardous for everyone in DB. With the trees ransacked and beaches, including Nim Shi Wan, overflowing with plastic, it was clear that this was the most treacherous, horrific typhoon Hong Kong has ever seen.

When I woke up, I found I had a sinking feeling. Mr Haines’s warning about the approaching T10 buzzed around in my head like a mad hornet. Gravely, I looked under my bunk to find my sister Thalia still snoring in bed, seemingly without a care in the world. Little did she know what was approaching. I didn’t want to wake her up because I wanted her to enjoy the peaceful moments of sleep before she witnessed the angry typhoon reigning down upon her.

I looked outside, I saw our thick but dangerously brittle oak trees in the stony front-yard being pulled at by Mother Nature’s tantrum. I wondered to myself: was she in a mood because of a certain thing? Maybe, it’s because we’re still polluting Earth and she’s still annoyed. More questions filled me. How long was this going to last? Was this the ‘eye of the storm’ my Dad had told me about? And if not, what would it be like when it reaches DB? And what destruction would it cause? Boy, I didn’t know what would be in store…

– Illyas Sandham, Year 5 


Image: hongkongnews.com.hk

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