After battering southern parts of Taiwan and skidding past the country, Super Typhoon Meranti has made landfall over China on early Thursday morning. The storm hit near Xiamen in Fujian Province.
As soon as the storm made landfall, electricity in the Xiamen and many areas of Fujian Province vanished. As much as a million people are affected due to the unavailability of electricity.
The powerful storm raked southern Taiwan with drenching rains and dangerously damaging winds of up to 370 kmph which is faster than a Formula One race car. But when the storm hit China, it was comparatively less in intensity than that of Taiwan.
Less in intensity but lethal was the nature of the winds as the top wind speed observed was at 230 kmph gusting even at a higher speed of 280 kmph.
The power of Meranti has prompted Chinese officials to issue the highest possible warning for high ocean waves as they are prepared for the heavy overflow.
Heavy rainfall and flash flooding along with dangerous winds will continue over the region for the next 48 hours. Eastern China may even see mudslides at few places.
Turn up the sound..Doors straining against #TyphoonMeranti in our hotel, landed near Xiamen as equiv. Cat4 hurricane pic.twitter.com/zBNsGx7tnm
— Matt Rivers (@MattRiversCNN) September 14, 2016
Last working elevator in the hotel now flooded....22 flight walk down coming up... #TyphoonMeranti pic.twitter.com/fWzkMmyTBc — Matt Rivers (@MattRiversCNN) September 14, 2016
The awesome power of Super #TyphoonMeranti #Kaohsiung. Containers tossed about like playing cards #Taiwan #Meranti pic.twitter.com/ScfpY5NxGt
— David Spencer (@dspencer47) September 14, 2016
Mid-Autumn Festival meets #TyphoonMeranti: Manmade moon blown loose in SE China, rolling all over the streets pic.twitter.com/n7bME2OwVe — People's Daily,China (@PDChina) September 14, 2016
Dangerous outside now in #Kaohsiung, China. #TyphoonMeranti pic.twitter.com/HlM9TprHZT
— Breaking911 Weather (@B911Weather) September 14, 2016
#TyphoonMeranti slams into China, causing damage but no casualties https://t.co/NgiJPgxWDf pic.twitter.com/nAerN40G3c — ABC News (@abcnews) September 15, 2016
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