Deadly Lekima Makes Landfall On Country's East Coast In China-HOMESUN Soft Close Reported

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Lekima made landfall as a typhoon on Saturday around 1 a.m. local time near Wenlin city, Zhejiang province. At the time it came ashore, the dangerous winds made the typhoon equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane in the North Atlantic and East Pacific Ocean Basins.

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In Zhejiang alone, more than 21,000 service personnel and militia members have been engaged in rescue and relief. They stacked sandbags, drained muddy water off the streets and rode on inflatable boats to evacuate residents who lived in the 1,600-year-old town of Linhai, where streets were completely submerged on Saturday

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Military rescue teams were called to the city of Taizhou in Zhejiang, where a large part of urban areas suffered power cuts, shortage of tap water and disruption of communication.Lekima was briefly a super typhoon at midweek while mainly over open water. However, the powerful cyclone brought dangerous seas from northern Luzon to Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands. Rain and winds over the Sakashima Islands began increasing on Thursday, bringing winds up to 119 km/h (74 mph) as of Thursday evening.

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HOMESUN Soft Close sincerely hope everything is going back to normal soon and respect to all of the rescue teams.