Posted on 07/10/2015 7:52:31 PM PDT by markomalley
Super typhoon Chan-hom barrelled towards eastern China near commercial hub Shanghai on Saturday, prompting the evacuation of more than 865,000 people after earlier lashing Japan's Okinawa island chain and Taiwan.
The powerful storm could be the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Zhejiang province, which borders Shanghai to the south, for the month of July since 1949, China's National Meteorological Centre (NMC) said.
At 9:00 am (0100 GMT) on Saturday, the typhoon was around 115 kilometres (71 miles) southeast of Zhejiang province over the East China Sea packing winds of up to 187 km per hour, the NMC said.
It was forecast to make landfall in Zhejiang on Saturday in the afternoon, striking near the port city of Ningbo before approaching Shanghai.
In addition to the large-scale evacuations, the province had called nearly 30,000 fishing boats back to port after waves reached up to 10 metres (33 feet) high off the coast, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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This is not the way Ray Nagin responded to a Cat Five Katrina...lol
Freegards
LEX
That’s just two city blocks.
This is not a super typhoon. 100 kt max sustained winds misses that threshold by 30 knots.
The real problem is that this is just the first of two hurricanes. The second one is bigger.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer country!
Looks like it is headed towards South Korea. And the trailing one is headed out to nowhere.
I hope all our data is going to be safe!
I’ve been wondering how that fake island will survive a typhoon.
Oh, that was good. Thanks for the laugh.
That’s a good one.
Super storms. Super typhoons. Super hurricanes. Super volcanoes. WE’RE ALL DOOMED.
This Super typhoons is only more evidence of global warming!
Because when ever there is a really bad storm it is caused by all of the human’s burning oil and stuff.
Is this typhoon going to pass over their new artificial islands and if so what if they are washed away?
Then they’ll sell us more cheap plastic stuff.
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