Black rainstorm warning
Friday, June 9th, 2006So HKO hoisted the black rainstorm warning today and the rain was almost torrential at times. Suffice it to say I was on driving on the road at that time and I couldn’t see 3 metres in front of me at best. Anyway, I was driving past Yee King Road and I noticed on the opposite side of the road there was this scraggly little doggie just walking in the downpour. The rain was at it’s heaviest at the time. Poor little thing was small, looked like a "beijing" dog (buk king dog), but it wasn’t really I forgot the name of that breed, but anyway it was soaked to the bone and on an uphill struggle up Yee King road. I think it was lost or something, it had no collar or anything, and nobody was out, it’s must not have given a crap about it or something. Anyways, immediately my heart sank. I had to do something. I knew I couldn’t stop the car in the middle of the road, so I raced up to the roundabout at Yee King road / Cloudview Road crossroad and back down again and stopped at the bus stop on the opposite side of the road on Yee King road. The rain was totally pouring it down, it was like 12:30pm, a little after the black rainstorm warning was hoisted. I took a towel out of my car ( i have spare clothes and some towels just in case I wanna go swimming or go to the gym at the time and in case of emergencies) and I went back to pick it up, thinking to dry it and bring it home or at least give it some shelter before the rain stopped. I was thinking of taking it back to my house and well at least dry it up and give it some shelter. I really didn’t know what I would do with it, just instinct, you just wanna save the poor thing you know? But when I got back to the spot, the dog was gone. I dunno if the owner picked it up or it was washed away or something, but poor thing was struggling so hard to make it up Yee King Road and all the while against the wind and rain. I would be hard pressed to do it myself if I was naked and without an umbrella. Poor thing dunno where it went. Anyway I hope it was OK, really breaks my heart when I see something like that.