Hundreds of thousands of people in southern China were clarifying on Thursday after the powerful Typhoon Ragasa crashed through the province of Guangdong, tearing trees, destroying fences and exploiting signs outside the buildings.
Ragasa became Guangdong, home of dozens of millions of people, with winds of up to 145 kilometers (90 miles) per hour, on Wednesday after passing to Hong Kong and killing at least 14 in Taiwan.
AFP journalists at the point of impact around the city of Yangjiang on Thursday saw fallen trees, while road signals and debris were scattered through the streets.
A light rain and the breeze still remained while the residents worked to clean the damage; However, the authorities have not informed any death related to storms.
When ascending, an island administered by Yangjiang, help workers tried to clear a huge tree that had fallen through a wide path.
The cars led on muddy clues to move through the remains while the team worked to see branches.
A seafood restaurant had suffered strong damage, its rear roof collapsed completely or completely flown.
“The winds were so strong that everything could be seen completely,” said the 50 -year -old Lin Xiaobing restaurant worker.
“There is no electricity (at home),” he said while helping to clarify the disaster inside the restaurant, where the floors were covered with water, mud and rubble. “Today, some houses still have electricity and others do not.”
The island is a popular holiday place and many locals trust the tourism industry to make a living.
“We cannot do business here during the National Day,” he said, referring to the annual holiday period of China focused on October 1, but that lasts until October 8.
“We were planning to do this national day to compensate for it,” he added. “But now we may not.”
Taiwan maternity
Ragasa’s passage in Taiwan killed at least 14 and wounded dozens more when a lake of decades exploded in the east of Hualien County, according to regional officials who reviewed the number of deaths of 17 on Wednesday after eliminating duplicate cases.
Initially, the authorities said that 152 people had no account, but then contacted more than 100 of them and still tried to confirm the real number of missing.
The storm touched land in continental China, near the island that leaves, on Wednesday night.
At that time, China’s authorities had already ordered companies and schools that close at least 10 cities throughout the south of the country, affecting dozens of millions of people.
Almost 2.2 million people in Guangdong were relocated on Wednesday afternoon, but local officials later said that several cities in the province began to raise restrictions on schools and companies.
The Chinese state station CCTV said that Ragasa made her second land in Beihai, Guangxi, on Thursday morning as a tropical storm.
The Chinese authorities assigned the equivalent of approximately $ 49.2 million to support the rescue and relief work in regions affected by Typhoon Ragasa, said the Xinhua news agency.
Hong Kong reopens
Hong Kong resumed the flights of his international airport on Thursday after a 36 -hour suspension, reopening businesses, transport services and some schools after the most powerful tropical cyclone in the world hit the financial center this year.
Ragasa took the city densely populated to a dead point from Tuesday afternoon, after sweeping the northern Philippines and Taiwan, where he killed 14, before throwing land in the city of southern Yangjiang on Wednesday.
More than 100 people were injured in Hong Kong, where the authorities imposed the highest typhon signal for most Wednesday.
On Thursday, the Observatory maintained its Second Typhon Signal 3 lower, keeping the kindergartens and some closed schools when Ragasa moved away from the city and weakened a tropical storm.
The huge waves crashed over the areas of the east and southern coast of Hong Kong on Wednesday, with generalized floods immersing some roads and residential properties.
Mar the water emerged through the Fullerton hotel in the south of the island, breaking glass doors and flooding the lobby. No injuries were reported and the hotel said the services normally operated.
