THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1929.
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FRIGIDAIRE
CASTLE-PEAK THUNDERSTORM THRILLS.
DRIVING THROUGH A WALL OF WATER.
EXCITING EXPERIENCES ON FOUR WHEELS AND TWO.
Thirty minutes of a terrific thuc-, was impossible at times to see doratorm provide enough thrills to which way the road was goings tund last a lifetime if one happens to you turned the wheel aliout anato- be caught in it on a road which is natically because you sort of tel always a bit tricky.
that the ear should turn at that to drive on. Experienced motorista are quite pot. A driver on the rund for the first time would have bad to prepared to find approaching care and larries on the wrong side of stop dend and patiently wait the road when they turn a dangerous developments, or he would have corner on a stift incline, but they either crashed into the cliffs or gone over the side-in which ense are not always prepared to be bombarded with rocks or swamped he probably also would have stoj by mountain torrents. Our experi-ped dead. From time to time the skies were ablaze with vivid light- ences on Sunday evening writes a
and the thunder echoed correspondent) while driving home ning. from Castle Peak were probably around the hills like the simul very similar to those of others who taneous rolling of a thousand big got caught in the atorm. Some may drums. have fared better, others worse, for conditions seemed to VARY very much along the road.
From Calm to Storm. We started from Castle Peak as evening's twilight gathered round," after watching a beautiful sunset, Towards Hong Kong we could see the sky was very black, and it was obvious we would be running into rain before long, but what" rain! Distant rumblings of thunder warn ed us of trouble brewing, but no- thing happened until we got about two miles on the rond, when the rain started just enough to make the surface slippery. Suddenly a blinding flash of lightning-very quickly followed by a terrific crash thunder-and then the deluge!
A Wall of Water.
And stil the rain came down in close formation-an end. Ives wall of water, with torrents pouring down the hillside and rush- ing over the road-and rivuleta trickling through the hood, which seemed to have as many holes a the night has eyes-estimated by one of the poets at exactly one thousand.
Ghosts in the Gloom, By now it was getting really dark, and lights had been switched on, but they did not help much. There was still that solid wall of water in front of us, and faintly we could see the rear lights of other
stationary and rawling very gently. One saloon was in the middle of the road.
Cargome
some
wobbling ominously at times from side to side; possibly he had too much water under the bonnet! Presently he pulled in, and waved 3 on: we left him to his fate, fear- ing that if we stopped we might bave trouble in starting again! Two ghostly figures passed us in the gloom on a motor-cycle, follow.
We passed several cara whose drivers had pulled up to wait till the clouds rolled by, but not seeing any prospect of an early change in the weather we carried on. It was impossible to see more than twenty yards ahead, except when a flashed shortly after by two more ghosta of lightning passed over, leaving on another machine. We were vere us temporarily blinded. The rain wet but in comparison with theRe made a sheer wall of water. and poor fellows we were sun-dried! our headlights merely showed us a
Dry Kowloon, confusing mass of myriads of spark- ling diamonds, so we switched off
again.
*Conked Out,"
Approaching the point where the rend was recently blocked by a landslide our engine began to develop nathma or bronchitis or possibly the magneto was getting an unwanted and unwanted shower- bath, and was protesting. Anyway, just as we struggled up to the top of that little incline the car ston- ped-or to be more accurate, the engine stopped; the car very fortu- nately stopped too as the result of promptly applying the brake! Just behind us was another car, and it the driver of it has or had any desire for our blood for choosing that particular spot to roast on, we assure him that it was net choice but necessity that made us block up, half the road for a couple of
minutes.
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Falling Rocks.
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VERY IRRITATING CASE OF ECZEMA
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THERE'S A LONG, LONG TRAIL
of
Bugs, Fleas, Flies, Beetles, Mosquitoes,
etc....
all killed by
KEATING'S
BONE
MADE
However, we took a chance and
cars and
As we started to climb the last long hill the rain eased up, and by wiped the lead-wire with a "wet" the time we got to the top the sky handkerchief. A vigorous kick at was quite clear and we could see the starter, and cheers-the motor the lights of Hong Kong, twinkling
fired! "Rev, you, beggar, Rev! brightly. Down the long decline Hop on, old chap, we're off! Keep we glided into Laichikök, with scarcely more than a sprinkle of her in "second" and "rey-at last we were moving, and were rain falling, and on through the village of sweet smells to Nathan Fassing slow moving
slithering around corners. Bond, where we found everything bone dry, and where nobody knew anything about any rain! storm had been a very local one, but we were in it for about ten miles, though whether we travelled with it or just went through it from end to end we cannot tell. In any case, it was a good bit of fun in its way, and brake the monotony of a drive which as a rule does not offer much variety to the motorist, who has little leisure to admire the love- y views which his passengers can enjoy.
The
About a mile further on we found MOTOR-BIKE RIDER'S chunks of rocks tumbling down the hillside, and although we know very well that careful drivers always keen well on their own side of the
left.
before
EXPERIENCES.
A Water Splash, Rounding one of the many treacherous corners on the Castic Peak Road, grey lumps: were acen lying all over the rond, "Some- bodys' blew his motor, or a Ford dropped some nata; we should see rar standing by the road soon,” was what my nillion passenger speculated.
But no, they were large chunks of rock floating" in a water-splash three inches deep. Offering up a prayer, for the mdg neto, wo passed through the pond like a destroyer.
"
Cheers for the "mag. it's still functioning.
"No Brakes!" Charging up behind a long ling
road, we felt it was decidedly dan- As one of the "ghosts" referred gerous to keep in too close to the to in the above article, an impres of cars such a number have never We Raw several big boulders sion of the precarious ride back to been seen together on the rond that had fallen into the read and Kowloon on two slipping wheels since the visit of the last tourist shattered into pieces as big as will perhaps be of interest.
ship-we attempted to pase, Find- coconuts, and had no desire to pro- j Apparently with the same viewing our way baulked the brakes vide a target for ammunition of in mind to get as far as possible were applied. Horrors-it refused this sort, so we kept rather more
to function-water again and a the rain started nearly to the wrong side of the rand than every vehicle left Castle Peak about quick change to second, followed by a protest from the gear box, we should have done ordinarily. the same time. "
Hurrying along about two miles just saved the situation. from Castle Peak we suddenly ran into what has been accurately des cribed as a deluge. Cornering on two smooth tyres on a wet rond is certainly not good for the perves, but that was mild compared to the
on.
Wind Up."
Shipping Heavy Seas..
Following the Tail Lights, Presently we saw a big lorry an preaching, so we had to pull in
But still it continues to pour in the near side. As we did so we
without mercy, and darkness rip- shipped what seemed like several
proaches. The two sides of a are hard to distinguish, tons of yellow water pouring down
corner nullah and shooting out over the side of the road! We wondered difficulty of trying to see ahead and overtaking slow cars.is now dangerous. Into second gear, we now whether we too should anchor, through the blanket of heavy rain.
plod along in procession with the and wait for the storm to pass, but Water in the "Works,"
cars, each following the other's red there was no sign that it was ever
Suddenly from down below came light. What a wonderfully useful going to nass! It was the sort of coughs and splätterings, and fitting this can be at times! weather one might imagine Noah casionally for a few "reva" the anw when he looked out of the ark engine refused to fre. Guessing All the water we should have had the complaint immediately, the
Occasionally, flashes of lightning in instalments during the rainy clutch was slipped and the engine darted ahead of us, and we were season seemed to be suddenly let moved up to the peak. This had really beginning to get funky. I loose in one consignment, and the little effect, but soon the "works"
remembered reading of policy. billsides were sprouting and spout were becoming deluged. The rain officer's death through being struck ing waterfalla everywhere.
poured down on the smooth saddle by lightning while riding his cycle. Having got thoroughly wet, and tank, which in turn showered the rain My nige nickel-plated handle-bars knowing it was quite impossible to like a drain pipe all over the saddle offered a perfect lightning condue get any wetter, we decided to carry area. The state of affairs was by tor, but it was no use stopping, or We went past the classes now becoming serious, and what we should never be able to get the tank, and up the hill on the ather with trying to revive. a single side, to the running accompaniment cylinder which was being harassed of crashes of thunder, and the by water on the high-tension cable, hise-s-s of the tyres running through and a queer mixture of petrol and Now and again we rain-water, to say nothing of try would run through a puddle so deep ing to keep balance on wet roads that we made a wave like a des progress was difficult... troyer doing steam trials. Now
"Engine Gives Up the Ghost." and again we had caught brief
Finally, the engine refused to glimpses of the beach below, and it
run under such atrocious condi was astonishing to observe that for about half a mile from the shore tions, and gave up the ghost. To wet terminal the sen was absolutely yellow, attempt to dry a BRUNSWICK HOUSE showing the enormous amount of during a thunder-storm is an in- are dry, or almost, compared to sand carried down from the hills by, possible job, and we were obliged what we have lived through. Soon
to seek shelter under a tree,
we are home. My arms end lege After few looks. nt Lady are stiff through keeping them on Godiva" (the O. H, V. Norton) and the hand clutch, throttle hom. gear-change, and sering the angry looks, of Jupiter speak-tever, Pluvis, it was decided to try if we hakea-foot and hand-to you have could persuade the engine to fire. small idea how alert one nerds-
,irre The terminal looked like a tele to be during such a ride, is phone-wire during a rain storm; the heavy storm water was flowing along the enble and dropping over the float chum- ber of the carb." making things look a pretty mens.
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the water.
the torrents.
Tricky Navigation. Progress all this time was very slow, the needle never passing the ten-mile mark. Rushing hills and skidding round corners on your tail was impossible even for the "big boys" with their six-cylinders and klaxone to match. We know the rond pretty well but a stranger caught in that blinding downpour would have been 'helpless, for it
3
(Continued on next Columa),
engine to fire again.
Still the brakes are inoperative and coming down the hill into Laichikok, we pass a closed car, & sedan, without the off-side rear- wheel. It had broken,-Serce brak- ing and skidding around corners. must eventually tell of the driving wheels.
Home at Last.
But, Kowloon and Shamshuipe “....
Dae of the railings, opposite the Laichikok Prison just at the corner-was sem to be broken. Hope nobody pushed it over dating a bectic skid round the "bendi