Hundreds of thousands of people in southern China cleared on Thursday after powerful typhoon ragasa crashed through Guangdong Province, ripped trees, destroyed fences and jumped signs of buildings.
Ragasa threw herself into Guangdong, home to tens of thousands of millions of people, with wind up to 145 kilometers (90 miles) per hour, Wednesday after sweeping past Hong Kong and killing at least 14 in Taiwan.
AFP journalists at the influence point around the city of Yangjiang on Thursday so fallen trees, while road signs and garbage were stranded across the streets.
A light rain and breeze still lingered as residents worked to clean up the damage; However, authorities have not reported on storm -related fatalities.
On the tribute – an island administered by Yangjiang – emergency workers tried to clear a huge tree that had fallen over a wide road.
Cars were driving on muddy numbers to get around the wreck as the team worked to see branches.
A seafood restaurant had caused heavy damage, its back roof collapsed completely or in parts that were completely flown away.
“The winds were so strong, you could see it completely tore everything apart,” said restaurant worker Lin Xiaobing, 50.
“There is no electricity (at home),” she said as she helped clear the mess inside the restaurant where the floor was covered with water, mud and dirt. “Today some homes still have electricity, and others not.”
The island is a popular holiday and many locals are dependent on the tourism industry to earn life’s stay.
“We can’t do business here during the National Day,” she said, referring to China’s annual holiday period centered on October 1, but it lasts until October 8.
“We planned to do something for this national day to compensate for it,” she added. “But now we may not be able to.”
Taiwan perished
Ragasa’s passage in Taiwan killed at least 14 and wounded dozens more when a decades old barrier lake burst in eastern Hualien County, according to regional officials who revised the death toll late Wednesday from 17 after removing duplicate cases.
The authorities initially said that 152 people were not mentioned, but later came into contact with more than 100 of them and still tried to confirm the actual number of missing.
The storm made the landfall in the Chinese mainland near Heling Island on Wednesday night.
At that time, authorities throughout China had already ordered companies and schools to shut down in at least 10 cities throughout the country’s south and influence tens of thousands of millions of people.
Nearly 2.2 million people in Guangdong were moved before Wednesday afternoon, but local officials later said that more cities in the province began to lift restrictions on schools and businesses.
Chinese state -TV company CCTV said Ragasa made his second landfall in Beihai, Guangxi, Thursday morning as a tropical storm.
Chinese authorities earmarked equivalent to about $ 49.2 million to support rescue and relief work in regions affected by Typhoon Ragasa, Xinhua News Agency said.
Hong Kong opens again
Hong Kong resumed flights out of his international airport on Thursday after a 36-hour suspension, reopening businesses, transport services and some schools after the world’s most powerful tropical cyclone this year, the financial hub.
Ragasa brought the densely populated city to a standstill from Tuesday afternoon, after sweeping through the northern Philippines and Taiwan, where it killed 14 before making lands in the southern Chinese city of Yangjiang on Wednesday.
More than 100 people were injured in Hong Kong, with authorities imposing the highest typhoon signal 10 for most of Wednesday.
On Thursday, the observatory maintained its second lowest typhoon signal 3, holding kindergartens and some schools closed as Ragasa moved away from the city and weakened to a tropical storm.
Huge waves crashed over areas in Hong Kong’s eastern and southern coastline on Wednesday, with widespread flooding that submerged some roads and residential properties.
Seawater rose through the Fullerton hotel on the island’s south, broken glass doors and flooded the lobby. No injuries were reported and the hotel said services served as normal.
