Hundreds of thousands of people in southern China were erased on Thursday after the powerful Typhon Ragasa crashed in the province of Guangdong, snatching trees, destroying fences and exploding buildings.
Ragasa transferred to Guangdong, which houses tens of millions of people, with winds up to 145 kilometers (90 miles) per hour, Wednesday after swepting Hong Kong and killed at least 14 in Taiwan.
AFP journalists at the point of impact around the city of Yangjiang saw fallen trees on Thursday, while the road signs and debris were scattered in the streets.
A light rain and a breeze persisted while the residents worked to clean the damage; However, the authorities have not reported any death -related death.
As a helicit – an island administered by Yangjiang – the emergency services tried to clean a huge tree that had fallen on a wide road.
The cars driven on muddy tracks to move in the wreckage while the team worked to see the branches.
A seafood restaurant had suffered heavy damage, its rear roof has completely collapsed or in fully advanced parts.
“The winds were so strong that you could see him completely torn,” said the Lin Xiaobing restaurant worker, 50.
“There is no electricity (at home),” she said while helping to eliminate disorder inside the restaurant, where the floors were covered with water, mud and debris. “Today, some houses still have electricity and others are not.”
The island is a popular vacation spot and many residents are counting on the tourism industry to earn a living.
“We cannot do business here during the national day,” she said, referring to the annual vacation period of China centered on October 1, but it lasts until October 8.
“We plan to do business this national day to compensate for this,” she added. “But now we may not be able to do it.”
Fatalities of Taiwan
The passage from Ragasa to Taiwan killed at least 14 years and injured dozens of others when a lake of decade barrier broke out in the east of the county of Hualien, according to regional officials who revised the number of dead on Wednesday.
The authorities initially declared that 152 people were not recorded, but then contacted more than 100 of them and were still trying to confirm the actual number of missing.
The storm affected the landing in continental China near the island from the island on Wednesday evening.
At this stage, the authorities across China had already ordered companies and schools to close in at least 10 cities in the south of the country, affecting tens of millions of people.
Nearly 2.2 million people in Guangdong were moved Wednesday afternoon, but local officials later said that several cities in the province had started to raise restrictions on schools and businesses.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said Ragasa had made his second land in Beihai, Guangxi, Thursday morning as tropical storm.
The Chinese authorities have intended for the equivalent of around $ 49.2 million to support rescue and rescue work in the regions struck by Typhon Ragasa, said the Xinhua news agency.
Hong Kong Rouvre
Hong Kong resumed flights outside its international airport on Thursday after a 36 -hour suspension, reopening companies, transport services and certain schools after the most powerful tropical cyclone in the world this year.
Ragasa brought the city densely populated at the Tuesday afternoon arrest, after swept northern Philippines and Taiwan where he killed 14, before touching the city of Yangjiang, in the south of Yangjiang.
More than 100 people were injured in Hong Kong, where the authorities imposed the largest signal of Typhon 10 in most of Wednesday.
Thursday, the observatory maintained its second largest signal in Typhon 3, keeping the children’s gardens and certain closed schools while Ragasa was moving away from the city and weakened in a tropical storm.
Huge waves collapsed on the areas on Wednesday of Hong Kong, the east and the south of Hong Kong, with generalized floods submerging certain residential roads and properties.
Seawater jumped through the Fullerton hotel on the south of the island, breaking the glass doors and flooding the hall. No injury has been reported and the hotel said the services operated as usual.
