Shanghai hit by second typhoon days after historic storm

TDT | Manama

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Roads and neighbourhoods in Shanghai flooded yesterday as the Chinese megacity was battered by a second typhoon days after it was hit by its strongest storm in 75 years.

Typhoon Pulasan made landfall on Thursday night in the city’s Fengxian district, with a maximum wind speed of 23 metres per second (83 kilometres per hour), according to state-run Xinhua news agency. The storm “is forecast to gradually weaken as it moves inland”, Xinhua said, though downpours continued in the city yesterday morning.

Videos posted on social media yesterday showed Shanghai residents wading through calf-level water in some neighbourhoods, though no severe damage or casualties have been reported so far.

A video published by stateowned Shanghai Media Group showed police officers in high-vis coats pushing a stalled car through water in Shanghai, while a scooter driver in a poncho attempted to cross a flooded intersection. Around a dozen cars had broken down in that area due to the waters, according to the video. Many of the areas that were flooded earlier in the morning were cleaned up and dry by around 11am, an AFP reporter saw.

Parts of Shanghai upgraded their typhoon alert levels as the storm approached the city on Thursday