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Shanghai is cleaning up after being lashed by Typhoon Bebinca, its biggest tropical cyclone in 75 years.
Police and emergency workers were out in force on Monday dealing with sporadic flooding caused by the worst storm of its kind since deadly Typhoon Gloria hit the city in 1949.
Back then, Gloria reportedly killed more than 1,600 people in the country’s financial centre but this time there were no fatalities.
By noon, Bebinca’s centre had moved beyond the city, allowing flights to resume landing at Shanghai’s two major airports at around 2pm, and the first outbound flights to depart after 3pm.
Some metro line services also resumed from 2pm in Shanghai.
Highways, ferries and more metro services restarted operations after Shanghai lowered the typhoon warning signal to the least severe level of blue at 3.20pm




The Shanghai fire and rescue department said it had received around 8,500 calls as of noon, mostly related to removing risky objects from heights and clearing collapsed trees and other debris from blocked roads.
Shanghai’s flood prevention headquarters said one person was injured and four houses had been damaged, as of 12.30pm. Power supply was cut in 153 locations while more than 50 hectares (130 acres) of farmland were flooded.
In a video published by Shanghai-based online media outlet The Paper, a van driver was lucky to escape without injury when a large tree crashed in front of his vehicle in Shanghai’s central district of Jingan.
As it continued on its path, Bebinca reached the county-level city of Kunshan in neighbouring Jiangsu province by noon and by 3pm it had reached Wuxi.


Shanghai, on the central coast, is China’s economic powerhouse and its biggest city, with 25 million people. Its container port is the world’s busiest and Pudong International Airport is ranked as one of the 10 busiest airports in terms of passenger traffic.
In anticipation of the storm, more than 414,000 people were relocated by the end of Sunday, and all highways in the city were closed. All flights from Pudong and Hongqiao airports were cancelled from 8pm on Sunday.
In Hong Kong, the airport authority said 32 flights between the city and four eastern Chinese cities – Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Nantong – were cancelled on Sunday and Monday.
According to state broadcaster CCTV, 56,000 rescuers in more than 2,500 teams were deployed in readiness for Bebinca.
Shanghai’s public security department also assembled 12,000 fire rescue officers, along with 415 warehouses of flood prevention material.

All residents were advised to stay indoors for their own safety from Sunday.
Typhoon Bebinca made landfall at 7.30am the next day, with top wind speeds of more than 151km/h (94mph) recorded near its eye before it started to weaken a few hours later.
According to a resident of Hongqiao in Shanghai’s western suburbs, the weather had eased by 1pm to very light rains, after a morning of strong winds that uprooted trees and left bicycles, branches and debris scattered across the street.
“In my area, the typhoon was at its worst earlier in the morning, but by noon the wind and rain had calmed down. Around 10 to 11am the wind was at its worst, and the windows were shaking,” she said.
“The flooding in the roads is still pretty bad, and there are police cars and emergency vehicles cruising around the area.”
By 10am, the storm’s centre remained over Shanghai’s Fengxian district but Bebinca had weakened and the National Meteorological Centre lowered the typhoon warning signal from red – the strongest – to orange.

Bebinca is forecast to move west-northwest at 20-25km/h, rapidly weakening in intensity, through southern Jiangsu and central Anhui provinces, before entering southern Henan where it will continue to wane.
Schools, businesses and transport services were advised to suspend operations in four Shanghai districts, although government agencies remained open. Employees are protected against penalties for missing work because of typhoons.
The Shanghai Meteorological Bureau has warned that the strongest effects of the typhoon may be yet to come. Today’s conditions will be cloudy with showers or thunderstorms, and some areas will see heavy rain during the day, it said.
The winds and rains will gradually weaken from this evening and into the first half of the night. Temperatures will stay between 28-30 degrees Celsius (82.4-86 Fahrenheit), while high humidity and low air pressure are likely to cause discomfort.


The strong weather system comes hard on the heels of deadly Typhoon Yagi which swept through the Philippines, Hong Kong, three southern Chinese provinces and other Southeast Asian countries after it formed late last month.
Beijing pledged 200 million yuan (US$28.2 million) in disaster relief for southern China after Yagi – the world’s second-strongest tropical cyclone this year – hit Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi.
Typhoon Yagi killed at least four people and injured 95 others in southern China and caused large-scale power outages and disruptions to telecoms services for the 1.2 million people there.
Additional reporting by Emily Hung


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Financial hub of 25 million people lashed by winds and rains from strongest tropical cyclone to hit the city since 1949


Financial hub of 25 million people lashed by winds and rains from strongest tropical cyclone to hit the city since 1949.


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