Re: 1.4 million in China flee deadly storm

Bob Brock wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/10/07/china.typhoon.ap/index.html

BEIJING, China (AP) -- A storm drenched China's southeast on Sunday after killing five people on Taiwan and prompting the evacuation of 1.4 million people on the mainland, officials said. In Vietnam, the death toll from a separate storm rose to 55.

Krosa came ashore as a typhoon in China's Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, but weakened and was soon downgraded to a tropical storm, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

It said no deaths or injuries were reported, but the storm wrecked houses and knocked out power in the port city of Wenzhou as torrential rains swept the region.

More than 1.4 million people were evacuated from coastal areas, including more than 500,000 tourists who were at beach resorts for the National Day holiday week, Xinhua said.



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interesting that a backward country as china can achieve such an evac ,and do it over and again each typhoon , when the worlds richest canot achieve anything near it
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