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BEIJING, Oct. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Typhoon Mujigae has landed in the southern province of Guangdong, midway through the county's golden week public holiday when many people are travelling around. It was packing strong winds with a speed of 50 meters per second at its eye.
More than 25,000 fishing boats in Hainan, and nearly 39,000 fishing boats in Guangdong have returned to harbor or nearby shelters. Dozens of flights were cancelled, thousands of people were evacuated, and the local government has called staff back to gear up for the disaster.
The twenty-second typhoon this year, Mujigae, which in Korean means rainbow, brought with it anything but that. On top of the fierce winds and torrential rains, angry tides. This is a park in Hainan's provincial capital Haikou, submerged under water.
This reporter said it was a struggle just to keep his eyes open in the deluge of rain. And in the city center, water 20 centimeters deep. In Zhanjiang in Guangdong Province, which met Mujigae head on, this reporter had to tie herself to a three-ton-heavy vehicle so that she doesn't get blown away.
While this one took to squatting to stabilize himself as trees slammed down all around. Transportation is crippled. High-speed trains linking Haikou and Sanya in Hainan, have been suspended. And 68 flights from and to the Haikou Meilan International Airport were cancelled.
The impact is also felt in Guangxi region, where all coastal high speed trains were suspended.
(Source: CNTV.cn)
