People who spread the news has bad faith. The long queue are those non-business worker who only based on the words of mouth or eye witness.
Poor of them under the strong wind and rain........
Joseph Yam of Hong Kong Monetary Authority ("HKMA") has announced full support of BEA and has over qualify of the reserve in the HKMA, that should stop the rumour. Even Chief Executive Donald Tsang need to seek the banking info from HKMA.