Migrant workers and their families rest in an exhibition hall after being evacuated from their workplaces due to the typhoon in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang province
China’s east coast has been put on high alert as Typhoon In-fa made its second approach on Monday morning, bringing rain to surrounding areas.
Typhoon In-fa – this year’s sixth – made landfall at around 9:50 a.m. on Monday in coastal waters near Pingu, a county-level city under the administration of Jiaxing City in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, packing winds of provincial flood control. Up to 28 meters per second at its center, according to Headquarters.
All high-speed trains passing through the cities of Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo have stopped service. As of 9:30 a.m. on Monday, nine major flood monitoring stations in Jiaxing had exceeded the warning water level, eight of which exceeded the guaranteed water level, Xinhua news agency reported.
Around 10 a.m., waterlogging to a depth of about 10 cm was observed on the roads near the gymnasium in Pingu town. No major disaster related incident has been reported in Jiaxing till 11 am
Wang Ping, deputy director of the port area emergency response center in Jiaxing, said they had prepared about 170,000 cubic meters of soil to deal with the typhoon. About half of the 44 chemical enterprises in the port area suspended production, while the rest reduced production capacity.
Typhoon In-fa has affected more than 114,000 people in Jiaxing and damaged more than 267 hectares of crops and 1.33 hectares of aquafarms, causing direct economic losses of more than 4.67 million yuan (about $721,000). More than 155,000 people have been safely evacuated.
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