No, never.

But, I lived through 'Wilma' in 2004 (or 05) in S. Florida with wind gusts around 140 m/h. My apartment entrance doors were pulled out of the hinges, and flew to the street.

The worst was being without electricity for longer than a month in Ft. Lauderdale. We could charge phones and laptops only at the city Hospital and few gas stations with long queues in front of the electrical plugs.

At hurricane Andrew, I was on the cruise ship. Hurricane 'erupted' on 2nd day of the cruise. Captain sailed all the time in front of the hurricane, so when we finally berthed in Miami port, after being at sea some two weeks, we realized that the safest spot in S. Fl. was on the cruise ship.

Scary? I miss Florida forever!

Had a minor one pass this way the other day. Not too impressive, my wife's farts are scarier than that.

This time, in Shanghai, it was not much, really...

I once experienced the real stuff in HK, all the streets were empty and most shops were closed. I was there for a visa run, the airport was closed, so it got me extra holidays at the expense of my employer ^^ You were invited to not go out. And indeed, a lot of things were flying around, including large metallic panels from construction fields, umbrellas and more. Walking against the wind was a bit like swimming or a walking a really steep slope. It was a nice to visit Hong-Kong close to empty.

I've experienced several living in the Ningbo area for the past ~4 years.  Generally, they are pretty awesome!  By the time they reach us, they've usually petered out strengthwise.  So what we end up with is a 1-2 day reprieve from the usual hot, muggy, summer days.  Instead it's relatively cooler and breezy, with the added effect of blowing all the pollution away.  I'm sure they suck pretty hard early on though....thinking recent disaster in the Philippines 

Love them. At least for 1-2 days you can breathe.....

Yeah, we've had several. There has been at least one bad one every year I've been here and several minor ones. Bad meaning it plowed straight over us, minor meaning it plowed over someone else, but just dumped a lot of water on us. 

Generally the typhoons always hit the Philippines, at least those people are really unfortunate when it comes to typhoons. And generally they swing towards the north east hitting the east coast of China or messing with Taiwan and Japan, or they go along the southern coast and pass Hong Kong and Hainan. Seems there is a fair distribution between the two common paths. 

Kalmaeig/Luis, which hit us just last week was far from the worst I've experienced. But if you look at the city during and after, it is chaos. Schools and other institutions close. Macau had some severe flooding so lots of offices sent home their employees. Lots of trees are torn apart, branches everywhere, the cleanup is still ongoing, but now everything has been put in piles for trucks to come and pick up. By "Lovers Road" along the South China Sea cost, concrete blocks that form the railing to prevent lovers from falling in the ocean were torn up and clung across the road like it was Styrofoam. 

33 people were killed by this typhoon, not sure where.  

I must admit, I really like typhoons. They make me feel humble towards the universe, they confirm my beliefs (either no God or he is up to no good) and best of all. They allow me to walk the dog in complete solitary. The temperature often drops, which during the hot humid summer is nice. welcomed. The air is generally cleaner, but sometimes the aftermath means a lot of dirty air from the north gets sucked down south.

The destruction is awful, but just goes to show we are small and powerless. In China, typhoons have a social unbalance. The farmers living in small houses in the country side, they must suffer. Me sitting 20 floors up, well, I do worry about the parking garage if it will get flooded. 

The worst typhoon was a direct hit in 2012. All the trees in the park around our community was flattened, big areas flooded, I don't remember the overall casualty numbers, but it was pretty bad. 

In a funny side note. I've flown from Hong Kong during a typhoon (not a direct hit) absolutely no problems at the airport, but man the ferry trip to the airport was rough and they stopped ferry service a couple of hours later) Take off was smooth and the worst part about that was the in flight meal.