CHINA UNDER WATER: Severe Flooding and Landslides After Typhoon Bavi Slams Zhejiang and Beijing

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Typhoon Bavi, the most powerful tropical cyclone to strike the Chinese mainland this year, made a destructive landfall in eastern Zhejiang province late Saturday, forcing the mass emergency evacuation of more than 2.2 million residents across vulnerable coastal regions. Packing maximum sustained winds of 40 meters per second near its center, the ninth designated typhoon of the season slammed into Yuhuan, Taizhou, triggering severe storm surges, flash flooding, and landslides that effectively paralyzed regional transportation networks, including extensive flight cancellations at Shanghai and Hangzhou international airports. Although the storm systematically weakened into a severe tropical storm as it tracked northwestward inland, trailing outer bands dropped historic precipitation quantities across northern hubs, leaving Beijing heavily inundated with severe urban waterlogging. While state emergency services deployed over 9,300 specialized surveyors and rescue crews equipped with heavy

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