Baptized in China as “The King of Storms”, the Sortifón Ragasa It whips on Wednesday with Hong Kong force and the southern coast of the Asian giant, after having left at least 14 dead in Taiwan. The deceased are added to the 3 that already left in his path, on Monday, in the north of the Philippines, in addition to a balance of dozens of injured and innumerable damage.
Meanwhile, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong (or canton), the cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen have shielded waiting for the impact of hurricane winds and torrential rains of the most powerful cyclone in the world so far from 2025.
Hong Kong’s Chinese Autonomous Region has spent a night of deserted streets, to expectation, under rain and increasingly intense winds while the eye of the storm was approaching.
The modern Financial Center, where 7.5 million people live between glass and steel towers, has already dawned under the level of alert 10, the maximum, decreed by the Hongkonese weather service, according to the local newspaper South China Morning Post. The city has been paralyzed while the super -for Ragasa It passed only 100 kilometers south of the former British colony early.
Already on Tuesday the authorities had decreed the suspension of all classes; 600 canceled flights were canceled and the transport of merchandise has been limited to a minimum. In addition to the showers, the sea is experiencing a significant increase in water and the coasts are being beaten by large waves.
In Taiwan, where the Superfón won on Tuesday morning without the authorities reporting from remarkable incidents, the tragedy arrived in the afternoon, with the flood of peoples and villages after the overflow of a lake in the mountains, affected by land of land.
A sudden avalanche of water surprised the residents of several towns in the Hualien County, a little populated area in the east of the island, leaving, so far 14 dead. Many of them were older people who were trapped on the ground floor of their houses, as reported by the CNA agency on Wednesday morning. Rescue operations are still going, and the number of missing people is unknown.
Meanwhile, on the southern coast of continental China they waited since in the morning the impact of the 18th typhoon of the year: the eldest of all of them. In Shenzhen, an ultrathcnological city in the province of Canton (or Guangdong), located about thirty kilometers from Hong Kong, the preventive evacuation of 400,000 people in risk areas was ordered on Tuesday and, rail and air traffic was paralyzed, in addition to suspending the classes.
Guangzhou, the capital of the province, decreed what in China they call the “five suspensions”: the closure and closing of classes, work, production, transport and commercial operations throughout the city, a especially drastic measure taking into account that it is one of the main manufacturing poles of the country. The city houses tens of thousands of textile workshops, where production for brands like Shein comes out.
The authorities of this gigantic province of 126 million inhabitants raised the emergency response to the highest level against Ragasaand issued an urgent mobilization order after warning that they could receive the blow of Sustained winds of 200 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 260, in addition to torrential rains, with accumulated greater than 300 liters per square meter in some areas.
Typhones are recurring phenomena in southeastern China and Taiwan during the summer and autumn season, when the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean favor the formation of cyclones that sometimes cause significant damage and interruptions to transport and economic activities.
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