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Chinese official media reported that Typhoon Bebinka, which arrived in Shanghai on Monday, carrying strong winds and heavy rain, was the strongest storm to hit the city in more than 70 years.
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The city authorities announced a red warning, which means a state of high alert, which led to the evacuation of some residents in coastal areas.
The typhoon hit the coastal area of Lingang New City, east of the city, early Monday morning, according to the China Meteorological Administration.
China’s official CCTV network said shortly after Hurricane Bebinka made landfall that the storm that hit Shanghai was the strongest since Hurricane Gloria in 1949.
Authorities advised the city’s 25 million residents not to leave their homes, and all flights at Shanghai’s two main airports were cancelled.
Nine thousand people were reported to have been evacuated from Chongming Island, located at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
All major roads were closed at 1.00 local time (17:00 GMT), and a speed limit of 40 kilometers per hour was imposed on roads in the city.
Shanghai’s flood control centers told CCTV they had received dozens of reports of typhoon-related incidents, most of them downing trees and billboards.
The network broadcast footage to its correspondents from the nearby coastal province of Zhejiang, where huge waves were pounding the region’s rocky shore under a gray sky.
“If I went out in (the storm), I could hardly speak,” said the reporter.
“You can see that the surface of the sea is one wave after another, each higher than the other,” he said.
2024-09-17 08:14:16