BEIJING: Despite the lingering impact of the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Shanghai since 1949, life and traffic were resuming gradually on Monday. As the center of typhoon Bebinca left Shanghai at noon, the all-out preparations and efforts made by people from all walks of life had paid dividends.
Bebinca, the 13th typhoon of this year, hit Shanghai’s Lin-gang Special Area in Pudong New Area early on Monday morning with wind speeds reaching 42 meters per second, surpassing typhoon Gloria to become the strongest to hit Shanghai in 75 years, said the National Meteorological Center. No deaths had been reported in Shanghai as of press time. On Monday, the second day of the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, residents who stayed at home on the advice of the city government uploaded videos showing strong winds and heavy rain, as well as fences blown down, trees uprooted, and power being cut off in some communities.
More than 414,000 people had been relocated across Shanghai and 811 ships had been evacuated as of early morning on Monday, according to the Shanghai Flood Control Headquarters.
The authorities in the city pulled out all the stops to ensure that all those evacuated were taken care of, such as by providing hot lunches to the relocated and delivering meals to elderly residents. Jin Shuigen, a 78-year-old man in the city’s Jinshan district, was delivered a hot lunch by community volunteers on Monday. Jin was not alone, as dozens of seniors living in Fengpu community and many other neighborhoods around the city received lunches from community volunteers on Monday morning. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
