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We had a Black Rain Warning late this morning, so at lunchtime everybody stayed inside and looked bored.

A Black Rain Warning is defined as follows:
Very heavy rain has fallen or is expected to fall generally over Hong Kong, exceeding 70 millimetres in an hour, and is likely to continue.
ACTION: Stay indoors or take shelter in a safe place until the heavy rain has passed. Employees working outdoors in exposed areas should stop work and take shelter. People having no safe place to go may take temporary refuge in any of the special temporary shelters opened by the Home Affairs Department. Employers are advised not to require their employees to go to work unless prior agreement on work arrangements during rainstorms has been made. People who are already at work should stay where they are unless it is dangerous to do so.

For the record, parts of HK received more than 200mm of rain, so the warning was probably justified!