Shanghai: Tens of thousands of boats and ships returned to harbour in Zhejiang, where beach resorts and sea farms were evacuated and ferry services suspended as Typhoon Wipha - potentially the most destructive storm in a decade - bore down on China's financial capital Shanghai.
Some 365 workers were also pulled off the Pinghu oil rig in the East China Sea.
"This is the first time in 10 years that the eye of the storm will probably make landfall in Shanghai," said Ding Ruoyang, a meteorologist at the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau.
Up to 200 millimetres of rain was expected to pelt the city, while winds could gust above 102 kilometres per hour, prompting officials to begin an evacuation of 200,000 people.
"The evacuation includes residents who live in old and dangerous houses, workers who live in temporary construction site structures as well as workers living near the shore," Ding said. "Wipha will hit our province head on and the areas affected would be the most economically developed and densely populated," the Zhejiang provincial government warned. "Strong winds will come with heavy rainfall ... The relief work will be complicated and grave," it said in a statement on its website (www.zj.gov.cn).
Some streets were blocked and traffic slowed to a crawl in older areas of the city centre late yesterday as flooding in some places reached levels of nearly a metre, and underground car parks were inundated.
The edge of Wipha grazed northern Taiwan yesterday, bringing downpours and prompting closure of schools, offices and markets. State television footage showed huge waves hitting eastern shores while soldiers helped local residents move to temporary shelters amid pouring rains.
Source : GulfNews
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