Hong Kong started immense clean-up activities following a Super Typhoon named Ragasa, which wounded more than 100 individuals and created significant havoc in the financial city. The massive storm had destructive winds of as much as 145 kilometers an hour, knocking down hundreds of trees as well as flooding many neighbourhoods before proceeding to the Guangdong Province, Southern China.
Clean-up efforts start on a large scale in ravaged areas
Times of India reports that hundreds of thousands of individuals in the South of China were cleaning up shopping on Thursday following the devastating Typhoon Ragasa that ripped down trees, broke down fences, and smashed down signs affixed to walls. At the center of the crash, on Thursday morning, the AFP journalists witnessed the fallen trees in the areas around the city of Yangjiang, reaching the ground and strewn garbage all over the streets.
Ragasa swirled up to Guangdong with tens of millions of people with winds reaching up to 145 KPH on Wednesday, following the destruction of Hong Kong and the death of at least 14 in Taiwan. A breezy shower and wind continued to remain as people centered their efforts on repairing the damage. In a local restaurant, the owner informed AFP that electricity still had not come to one residential area, and on one side of the roof of his business, the entire roof had completely caved in. On Hailing, which is an island controlled by Yangjiang, relief workers tried to move a large tree that fell in a wide road.
Hong Kong hospitals test more than 100 victims of the storm
Hong Kong officials reported the names of 101 individuals who were being treated in government hospitals on injuries sustained in the typhoon by Wednesday evening, and they recorded over 900 individuals seeking refuge in 50 temporary shelters around the city. Hundreds of fallen trees and flooding were recorded in various neighbourhoods in the Chinese finance hub. Most of the tall city buildings were swaying and shaken by the strong winds.
Rogasa, the airport authority, gave a statement on Wednesday evening stating that it affected nearly 1,000 flights, and that they estimated that it would get back to normal operations in the coming couple of days. The top typhoon warning was briefly reduced in Hong Kong on Wednesday afternoon, and was the second-longest warning in the history of Hong Kong. The weather service of Hong Kong considered the storm as the strongest one in the northwestern Pacific this year.
Chinese officials protect 49 million on relief
Chinese authorities allocated the same amount of money, estimated at about 49.2 million dollars, to rescue and relief efforts in areas affected by Typhoon Ragasa, Xinhua news agency reported. By this time, governments throughout China had already ordered businesses and schools to close in at least 10 cities in the south of the country, affecting tens of millions of people.
The number of Taiwanese dead is revised, and it is still under rescue
The passage of the Ragasa in Taiwan killed at least 14 and injured dozens of others when a decades-old barrier lake broke along eastern Hualien county, according to the regional officials who, at the end of the afternoon, reduced the already 17 number of killed after canceling duplicate cases. Those in charge had initially reported that 152 individuals were not found, but subsequently got in touch with over 100 outreach individuals and were yet to ascertain the true figure of individuals who were missing.
The destructive path of Super Typhoon Ruagasa across Asia explains how badly tropical storms are increasing in the area, and meteorologists have warned about the future occurrence of stronger typhoons. The military drill and the evacuating operation must have saved a considerably larger number of victims after the weather services viewed the hurricane as the strongest storm of the year.