Cina: 433 mila persone evacuate per il tifone Saomai

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10 Agosto 2006
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Cina: 433 mila persone evacuate per il tifone Saomai

Dovrebbe colpire oggi le coste del sud-est; è l’ultima di una serie di pesanti perturbazioni, che hanno caratterizzato una stagione particolarmente violenta.

Pechino (Agenzie) – Più di 433 mila persone sono state evacuate dalla costa sud-orientale cinese, per l’arrivo del tifone Saomai. Lo riferisce oggi l’agenzia Xinhua. Il tifone dovrebbe colpire le province del Fujian e del Zhejiang, dove - secondo le previsioni del governo - si verificheranno anche forti precipitazioni. Saomai, nome vietnamita del pianeta Venere, è l’ottava grande perturbazione che investe la Cina nella stagione, rivelatasi particolarmente pesante.

Il tifone si dirige verso le zone già devastate dalla tempesta tropicale Bilis, che il mese scorso ha ucciso più di 600 persone. La settimana scorsa un altro tifone, Prapiroon, si è abbattuto sulla costa meridionale con un bilancio di almeno 80 morti. Secondo quanto riportato dalla Xinhua, gli abitanti evacuati dalle zone costiere del Zhejiang sono più di 167 mila, mentre nel Fujian il numero è di 266 mila.

Ieri Saomai è passato in Giappone, ad Okinawa, con venti superiori ai 144 km/h: le compagnie aeree hanno dovuto cancellare 141 voli, creando disagi a 24 mila passeggeri.

La bufera dovrebbe investire il nord di Taiwan, dove il Central Weather Bureau ha lanciato l’allerta per le condizioni delle acque a largo della costa settentrionale. Cancellati anche alcuni voli interni all’isola.
Saomai è la coda della tempesta tropicale Bopha, che stanotte ha attraversato Taiwan con venti intorno ai 65 Km/h, senza provocare danni a cose e persone.

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[MISNA] Il tifone ‘Saomai’, abbattutosi ieri sulle province sudoccidentali, ha provocato almeno 104 vittime accertate e 190 dispersi, secondo l’ultimo bilancio provvisorio diffuso oggi dall’agenzia ‘Xinhua’. Le più colpite sono le province del Fujan e dello Zhenjiang. Sembra che il tifone oggi abbia ridotto la sua forza distruttiva a quella di una tempesta tropicale. Sono già otto i fenomeni atmosferici di questo genere dall’inizio della stagione estiva. A luglio la tempesta ‘Bilis’, durata dieci giorni, ha ucciso più di 600 persone.

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Typhoon in China: Death toll hits 130


Beijing (Hindustan Times August 13, 2006).Typhoon Saomai killed at least 130 Chinese and left over 160 missing, state media said on Sunday, as reports emerged of fishing communities crushed by the strongest storm to make landfall for half a century.
Hundreds were also injured and damage estimated at millions of dollars, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Several fishermen were at sea when Saomai arrived in southeast China's Fujian province, leaving anxious families with no news about their loved ones till Sunday afternoon.
One local resident described how he walked along the coastline in the north of the province, near the fishing town of Shacheng, trying to identify the body of his wife's uncle. "The bodies had become so bloated in the hot weather that they were impossible to recognize," he said. "We could only tell people from the clothes they were wearing."
The Southern Metropolitan Daily reported from Shacheng on Sunday that many fishing vessels had disappeared after Saomai, with families desperate for news about their sons, husbands and brothers.
An official at the Flood Control Headquarters of Fuding city near Shacheng, declined comment, saying the death toll was still being verified. Fuding has witnessed horrific damage, reporting 41 killed, 107 missing and 1,350 people injured as hundreds of houses collapsed, according to Xinhua.
Fuding's Ziguo Temple, a 1,000-year-old piece of ancient Buddhist architecture, was also severely damaged, the news agency added. More than 20 structures inside the temple compound had collapsed, causing almost "total destruction," it said.
In Fujian, Saomai had struck with such force that Baisheng village, with some 300 households, had been wiped virtually off the map. "Almost the whole village was flattened," an unnamed local resident said.
Most deaths confirmed so far were from Zhejiang, north of Fujian. It is among China's most developed and prosperous provinces, and a showcase of what happens when forces of nature are unleashed on a modern and sophisticated society.
In Wenzhou, a booming port city with more than one million residents and an engine of economic growth in Zhejiang, 81 were reported killed and 11 went missing.
Six people were crushed to death in a landslide triggered by torrential rain in Linshui, Zhejiang. In the province of Jiangxi, to its west, two people were reported killed.

Saomai generated winds of up to 216 kmph when it hit Zhejiang, making it the strongest typhoon to strike China since 1956, according to the China Meteorological Administration.

The typhoon was downgraded early on Friday to a tropical storm and by early Sunday it was graded again as a tropical depression.

Typhoon Prapiroon, which made landfall on August 3, killed at least 80 and Tropical Storm Bilis, which hit on July 14, hovered over eastern and central China for 10 days, killing more than 600.

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Massive cleanup after China storm

BEIJING, China (AP Monday, August 14, 2006) -- Chinese soldiers have been ordered to spearhead a massive cleanup of the typhoon-battered southern region following the strongest storm to hit China in more than five decades.
Some 134 people were killed and 163 remained missing in the wake of Typhoon Saomai, which slammed into China Thursday and raced across Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Monday.
Packing winds of up to 270 kph (170 mph), Saomai uprooted trees and power lines, and left thousands of communities flattened and flooded.
The news agency said that People's Liberation Army soldiers had been ordered to repair roads, telecommunication lines, as well as electricity and water supply systems destroyed by Saomai and other recent storms.
Saomai, the Vietnamese name for the planet Venus, was the eighth major storm to hit China during an unusually violent typhoon season. Much of the southern region is still recovering from Tropical Storm Bilis, which killed more than 600 people last month.
Cities hardest-hit by Saomai were coastal Wenzhou, where at least 81 people were killed, and Fuding in Fujian province, where 41 people were killed and some 1,350 were reported injured.
In total, more than 50,000 houses were reportedly destroyed, with 56 provincial roads and national highways inundated and six cities hit by blackouts.
The storm also badly damaged a Buddhist temple built more than 1,000 years ago in Fuding, collapsing its gate house and 20 other buildings. The Ziguo temple suffered damages amounting to 5 million yuan (US$625,000; euro490,000), Xinhua quoted the temple's monks as saying.
Saomai killed at least two people in the Philippines earlier and dumped rain on Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
The weather bureau said Saomai was the most powerful typhoon since its record-keeping began in 1949.
In 1956, a typhoon with winds up to 234 kph (145 mph) killed 4,900 people in Zhejiang.

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China mops up after worst typhoon in 50 years


BEIJING (Tehran Times.) -- Workers in southern China shoveled large piles of mud and debris off the streets as officials assessed losses after the strongest typhoon in 50 years killed 104 people and left 190 missing.
Typhoon Saomai bore down on Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, forcing the evacuation of 1.7 million people and destroying tens of thousands of homes, according to official figures.
The massive storm has lost some of its strength, but state television CCTV Saturday quoted a top official urging people not to be complacent, with torrential rains and gale-force winds forecast over the weekend, which raised the risk of further landslides and flooding.
"We need to continue to put as top priority the task of guaranteeing people's safety," said Dou Yupei, deputy civil affairs minister. "We urge people not to move back into damaged and dangerous houses (to avoid) new casualties."
An estimated 54,000 homes were destroyed, while 122,700 hectares of farmland (303,000 acres) were rendered useless, according to the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters.
Economic losses in the two provinces totaled 11.25 billion yuan (1.4 billion dollars), the headquarters said on its website.
The Chinese Red Cross had earmarked 2.68 million yuan in urgent aid and collected 1.8 million yuan in disaster relief items like tents, towels, clothes and medicine, to be sent to badly hit areas, China Daily said.
Local officials have also distributed tons of water disinfectants to victims to avoid the spread of water-borne diseases and sent thousands of boxes of instant noodles and bottled water, CCTV said.
In a first for Zhejiang, a team of 12 psychologists were dispatched to Cangnan county where the typhoon hit, to offer counselling to people traumatized by the disaster, Xinhua news agency said.
The team will split into three groups, each spending two weeks in the hardest-hit towns to help people recover psychologically.
Streets in affected areas were still blocked by downed trees and electricity poles, television footage showed. Some vegetable stands had reopened and residents were seen buying produce while standing in water up to their calves.
Among the deaths, 87 people were killed and 52 others left missing in Zhejiang's Wenzhou city, while Fujian suffered 17 deaths, with another 138 missing, state media said.
Those killed included 43 buried in collapsed houses in Jinxiang township on the outskirts of Wenzhou, Xinhua said.
"The wind was so strong that whole windows were slammed into rooms," an unnamed official in Jinxiang was quoted by China Daily saying.
Saomai generated winds of up to 216 kilometers (135 miles) an hour when it hit Zhejiang, making it the strongest typhoon to strike China since 1956, according to the China Meteorological Administration.

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BEIJING (Reuters Aug 14, 2006) - The strongest typhoon to strike China in half a century has killed more than 200 people since it made landfall late last week, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.

The death toll jumped from about 130 after the southeastern province of Fujian raised the number of people killed there by 80 to 125, most of whom fishermen, Xinhua said.
Saomai, graded a "super typhoon" with winds exceeding 216 km (134 miles) per hour, barrelled into Cangnan county in Zhejiang province on Thursday, flattening tens of thousands of houses, knocking out power and communications and ruining crops.
The deaths in Fujian were mostly reported in the coastal town of Shacheng, bordering Cangnan, where more than 10,000 ships returned to harbor before Saomai's arrival.
"A lot of fishermen stayed on their boats, worrying that they might be damaged in collisions with other ships," Xinhua said. "The wind was so strong that it overturned many ships and a large number of people were killed or went missing."
Bodies of 99 fishermen had been found in Shacheng by Sunday night, it said.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post said locals feared as many as 1,000 people from the area could have died, but Xinhua said only 108 were still missing and distraught relatives were still searching the waters by boat.
In neighboring Zhejiang, which reported a death toll of 81 on Friday and has not updated it since, house collapses were responsible for most of the casualties.
Saomai was stronger than a typhoon that killed about 5,000 in Zhejiang in August 1956, Chinese media have said.
Much of south China has been repeatedly battered by typhoons and tropical storms this year, with nearly 1,000 killed by rainstorms, landslides and other disasters they brought even before Saomai hit.

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Typhoon season 'unusually' harsh

[Sapa-AFP August 14 2006] Global warming is contributing to an unusually harsh typhoon season in China that started around a month early and has left thousands dead or missing, government officials and experts say.
"The natural disasters caused by typhoons in our country have been many this year," the head of the China Meteorological Administration, Qin Dahe, said in recent comments on his organisation's website.
"Against the backdrop of global warming, more and more strong and unusual climatic and atmospheric events are taking place.
"The strength of typhoons are increasing, the destructiveness of typhoons that have made landfall is greater and the scope in which they are travelling is farther than normal."
The vice minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, E Jingping, also spoke last week about the unusual ferocity, frequency and early arrival of typhoons in China this year.
Jingping said the typhoon season in China normally starts around July 27, but this year the first typhoon hit the southern province of Guangdong on May 18.
"This is the earliest typhoon to hit Guangdong since 1949," he said in a speech.
"The typhoons have come earlier this year, they are strong, the area that they hit is wide and the length of time they last is long."
Natural disasters in China this year have killed 1 699 people and left another 415 missing, the nation's Red Cross Society said last week.
More than 1 300 of those died in weather-related incidents from May to the end of July, the government reported earlier.
Those reports came before the arrival on Thursday last week of Saomai, the eighth typhoon of the season and the strongest to hit China in 50 years.
Saomai has killed at least 214 people, mostly in the two eastern coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian, according to figures released on Tuesday.
The president of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute, Lester Brown, told AFP that the weather in China over the past few months was reflective of the worldwide extent of the problem of global warming.
"The emerging consensus in the scientific community is that higher temperatures bring more frequent and more destructive storms," Brown said.
"Our seasons seem to be beginning earlier and ending later."
According to Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the earths average temperature has risen by 0.8°C since 1970, he said.
But this is only the beginning of what the UN's International Panel on Climate Change believes will be a rise in temperature for this century of 1.4°C to 5.8°C.
"Just imagine what typhoons and hurricanes might be like in the future," Brown said.
Simply put, the storms are caused when warmer oceanic and atmospheric currents interact with cooler currents in tropic and sub-tropical regions, experts say.
Many of the cooler oceanic currents stem from the melting of the polar ice caps that is occurring due to rising global temperatures, said Edwin Lau, who monitors global warming at Friends of the Earth in Hong Kong.
"The hurricanes and typhoons are due to hot air rising... and the hotter the air, the spinning of the hurricanes is faster, picking up more water," Lau told AFP.
Meanwhile, as some areas of China are hit by more typhoons and the resulting floods, other parts of the country are suffering from intense drought, which experts say is another by-product of global warming.
In a landmark report in the mid-1990s, the UN panel on climate change predicted that global warming would leave southern China drenched with more rains, while the north and west of the country would suffer worsening droughts.
In Sichuan province, directly to the west of where much of the devastation from the typhoons has occurred, nearly seven million people are currently in urgent need of drinking water due to a severe drought, state press said on Friday.
In the southwestern municipality of Chongqing next to Sichuan, the drought is threatening the water supply for 17 million people, according to another state press report.

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Cina:tifone Saomai, quasi 300 morti
Circa 100 i dispersi, bilancio potrebbe aumentare

(ANSA) - PECHINO, 15 AGO - Il tifone Saomai ha provocato la morte di quasi 300 persone in Cina e il bilancio potrebbe ancora aumentare. Lo ha detto l'agenzia ufficiale Nuova Cina aggiungendo che l'ultimo bilancio provvisorio stilato lunedi' sera era di 295 morti e di 94 dispersi. Saomai, il piu' violento tifone che si e' abbattuto sulla Cina da 50 anni, aveva spazzato le coste sud-est del paese giovedi' scorso.

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