TYPHOON SPARES WORRIED SHANGHAI

A very gigantic typhoon hits the China's east coast yesterday. IT causes huge demageto the south of the city.

Some big events like, matches for the women’s World Cup soccer tournament and an annual tourism festival parade was canceled. Most schools were closed. It is recorded that a heavy rain of 6.8 inches occured, but due to thetyphoon growing from neighboring Zhejiang Province 1 man was killed & an estimated six million people affected by the storm.






The typhoon destoys 669 houses, disrupting power supplies to nearly 2,000 villages, and also causes landfall at Cangnan County, near Wenzhou at 2:30 a.m.

The storm hits with a speed of 70 miles per hour & seems to most powerfull of last10 years.“The government relocated about 4,000 people and moved about 300 people into five specially established refugee camps,”accoding to Lin Guanzhen, the director party and political affairs of Cangnan County.“After the Typhoon Saomai in 2006, the government built new residential buildings to relocate impacted refugees. So, this time, most of our people who live in the new residential districts were not influenced, and to my knowledge, there were no serious injuries or deaths here.”

“It was pretty dangerous yesterday when the typhoon struck,” said Ye Sizhao, a villager of the county. “We were lucky that everyone, about 1,400 people altogether, had already been moved out of the village. When the rain and the wind were strongest, tiles on the roof were blown up in the sky, and as far as I know two houses collapsed during the night.”