Typhoon leaves big cleanup in its wake
August 25, 2012, Saturday
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MINHANG District survived Typhoon Haikui earlier this month, confronted by a big cleanup effort but comforted by no casualties, officials said.
The August 8 storm, whose name means "sea anemone," brought gale force winds and torrential rain to the Yangtze Delta, prompting the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau to issue its first-ever red typhoon alert.
Power repair crews and sanitation workers in Minhang were kept busy with flooding and power outages.
Migrant construction workers and residents living on the riverward side of the district were evacuated to emergency shelters.
On the morning of August 8, when the brunt of the storm hit, the Shanghai South Electric Power Company received reports of blackouts along Longchuan Road and Jiangchuan Road E. More than 30 repair workers rushed to the scene, where they found several large trees collapsed on power lines.
"The workers responded to more than 200 emergency incidents that day, and everyone was exhausted," said Lu Lili, an official with the company.
Also that morning, a disused telecom tower on Wuzhong Road near Huanzhen Road W. was snapped in the middle by a gale.
The top of the tower crashed into the roof of a residential building on Wuzhong Road.
Residents at the site had been evacuated earlier. Damage wasn't too severe, officials said.
More than 350 sanitary workers were dispatched to clean debris from streets and prevent sewer clogging. They also had to clear a felled tree from the track of Metro Line 5.
Several schools and industrial facilities were turned into emergency shelters for more than 3,960 migrant workers in the Wujing area.
The Zizhu High-tech Industrial Zone provided temporary beds, hot water and mosquito screening for workers.
The August 8 storm, whose name means "sea anemone," brought gale force winds and torrential rain to the Yangtze Delta, prompting the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau to issue its first-ever red typhoon alert.
Power repair crews and sanitation workers in Minhang were kept busy with flooding and power outages.
Migrant construction workers and residents living on the riverward side of the district were evacuated to emergency shelters.
On the morning of August 8, when the brunt of the storm hit, the Shanghai South Electric Power Company received reports of blackouts along Longchuan Road and Jiangchuan Road E. More than 30 repair workers rushed to the scene, where they found several large trees collapsed on power lines.
"The workers responded to more than 200 emergency incidents that day, and everyone was exhausted," said Lu Lili, an official with the company.
Also that morning, a disused telecom tower on Wuzhong Road near Huanzhen Road W. was snapped in the middle by a gale.
The top of the tower crashed into the roof of a residential building on Wuzhong Road.
Residents at the site had been evacuated earlier. Damage wasn't too severe, officials said.
More than 350 sanitary workers were dispatched to clean debris from streets and prevent sewer clogging. They also had to clear a felled tree from the track of Metro Line 5.
Several schools and industrial facilities were turned into emergency shelters for more than 3,960 migrant workers in the Wujing area.
The Zizhu High-tech Industrial Zone provided temporary beds, hot water and mosquito screening for workers.
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