 It is estimated that every 5 squatter huts had 1 was destroyed or damaged by the typhoon in Sha Tin, which is one of the gathering place of squatter huts in Hong Kong at that time, approximately 3,000 squatter huts damaged in total.The road was blocked by a large number of damaged squatter huts and needed the British army to help to rescue the residents and clean up the road.The heavy flooding increased the hardness of the rescue and clean up, there were 869 acres of farm land were flooded with sea water, over 30 percents (277 acres) were in Sha Tin, almost 65 percents (179 acres) of the low lying farm in Sha Tin were still affected two months later.