{"id":681746,"date":"2026-07-09T05:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681746\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:29:14","slug":"clips-of-flooded-hong-kong-rivers-streets-go-viral-online-after-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681746\/","title":{"rendered":"Clips of flooded Hong Kong rivers, streets go viral online after heavy rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Videos of flash-flooded rivers and overflowing pavements went viral on social media on Wednesday as residents in parts of Hong Kong grappled with more than 70mm of rainfall in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The intensity of the floods prompted some users online to claim a picture of the extreme was outdated or even AI-generated, only to be proved wrong when a clip was shared by another person.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI actually live in the village houses right above that spot, so I wanted to post the video I took this morning to prove it\u2019s not fake!\u201d the user wrote.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The earlier image, which was shared in a Facebook group, shows nearly identical scenes of flooding near Tsuen Wan\u2019s Allway Gardens the day before.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong flood clips go viral over AI claims<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the comments, another Hong Kong resident shared videos of overflowing pavements from outside her car window in Fanling, as a flash of lightning appears in the sky above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Videos of flash-flooded rivers and overflowing pavements went viral on social media on Wednesday as residents in parts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[227578,227577,227582,121825,1397,1325,227579,6875,70936,227580,27442,50,16801,227581,107505,90,23727,77528,208443,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-allway-gardens","tag-amber-rain-signal","tag-black-rainstorm-warning","tag-el-nino","tag-environment","tag-facebook","tag-fanling","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-island","tag-hong-kong-observatory","tag-new-territories","tag-news","tag-pacific-ocean","tag-pok-fu-lam","tag-sai-kung","tag-science","tag-scmp","tag-sha-tin","tag-tseung-kwan-o","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}