Typhoon Hato has left at least eight people dead in Guangdong Province. According to the Zhuhai government’s official announcement and other mainland reports, four of the deceased were from Zhuhai, two were from Zhongshan and one was from Jiangmen. It is not clear where the eighth victim was from.
On the evening of August 23, in Zhongshan, a man died after being crushed by a car which was flipped over by the force of the typhoon. On the same day, a woman died after being hit by a tree, also in Zhongshan.
According to the official Weibo account of the Zhuhai People’s Government’s news office, as of 5 p.m. on August 23, two people had died in Zhuhai, 275 houses had collapsed, and more than 2,000 hectares of land were devastated.
Electrical and water supplies across the city went down in most areas.
In the morning of August 23, parts of the water treatment plants did not have electricity. By noon, 12 water plant factories in Zhuhai stopped providing water, which affected the supply of the resource in three regions in Zhuhai.
By 4 p.m., 681 circuit breakers were off, and 39 transformer substations were down, leading to power cuts in 680,000 households. Eight sewage treatment plants also ceased operations.
More than 130 flights were canceled at the Zhuhai airport.
In Shenzhen, the typhoon had severely injured two people as of 3 p.m., with an additional 14 reporting minor injuries.
More than 300 flights were canceled at the Shenzhen airport.
All trains had suspended operations during the day of the typhoon.
According to a report by Sina Guangdong, the typhoon formed a tornado in Guangxi Province, causing damage in Guangxi village and injuring inhabitants.
By 11 a.m. yesterday in Zhuhai, 50 percent of the households were still experiencing a water shortage, and water supply for some 30 percent of the city’s households were not expected to resume that day.
Several roads in Zhuhai were flooded. A tower crane on the Hengqin financial island fell from a construction site, and glass windows of many properties were shattered. In both Zhuhai and Huizhou, seawater had also washed back into the cities.
The Times contacted multiple Zhuhai authorities, including the fire services authority, the Zhuhai government, and the city’s propaganda departments, but no further updates have been released . JZ
