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Southeast coast braces for typhoon as Taiwan cleans up
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-19 16:40 Typhoon Haitang swirled toward China's southeast
coast Tuesday afternoon after killing up to six people in Taiwan, injuring 30
and wreaking damage estimated at US$40 million, the Reuters reported.
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A family of three
defies risks and appreciates giant waves whipped up by Typhoon Haitang
outside Taiwan's northern city of Keelung yesterday. Haitang pounded
Taiwan with heavy winds and rain, killing at least one and injuring 58
people and shutting down airports and financial markets.
[AFP]
| But as southeastern coast prepared for
the worst, the once-fierce storm was losing some of its power, packing maximum
winds of 119 km/h (74 mph) and gusts of up to 155 km/h, making it a moderate
typhoon, said Taiwan's weather bureau.
In the rice-growing provinces of
Fujian and Zhejiang, more than 860,000 people were evacuated from coastal areas,
state media said.
Five thousand police were mobilized and reservoirs and
dikes were under surveillance, as heavy rains caused a landslide in Zhejiang. No
casualties were reported in the Chinese coast. However, there was no electricity
in eight towns of Zhejiang.
Authorities in Fujian and Zhejiang had also
ordered back to port some 17,000 fishing and merchant ships with a total of more
than 300,000 aboard.
Ferry services and some flights in the area were
canceled as residents prepared for the onslaught.
"I stored some water
and food after I heard the news," the China Daily quoted Huang Liying, a
resident of the Fujian capital Fuzhou, as saying.
"Who knows whether
power and water supplies will be cut off when the typhoon comes?" she
said.
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