Despite more than 50,000 southern China residents being evacuated amidst the typhoon's carnage, the security guard was still on the clock, sitting in his stand alone cabin in a Guangdong Province parking lot.
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After being thrown out of his seat, he seemed shocked that his fragile office could not withstand the storm's force.
Residents in the cities of Shanwei and Shantou within the same province as the guard, were forced to move to safer ground as the storm hit, local authorities and state media reported.
China suspended dozens of flights and rail services in several southern provinces.
In the city of Shenzhen, authorities ordered schools, markets and factories to close, halted public transportation and evacuated some areas.
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Neighboring Hong Kong suspended trading on the stock market yesterday and shut down schools, offices and commuter ferries as Haima lashed the financial hub with rain and wind gusts of up to 109 km/h.
Haima hammered the northern Philippines with ferocious wind and rain, triggering flooding, landslides and power outages and killing at least 13 people, before hurtling towards China.
No deaths caused by the typhoon have been reported in China.
