Typhoon Saomai

Meranti will be the most powerful typhoon to make landfall in China since Super Typhoon Saomai struck in 2006 with one minute sustained winds of 260 km/h. It's also the strongest typhoon in Asia since Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the central Philippines in 2013, and is the strongest storm to come this close ...

In 2006, a few weeks after a 220-kV line was reconductored with ACCC to increase capacity over a mountain range in the Fujian Province of China, Super Typhoon Saomai struck. More the 1.3 million people were forced to evacuate, and winds in excess of 135 mph were recorded. Saomai was classified as the most ...

Official Chinese media expressed worries that the storm would cause as much destruction as Typhoon Saomai in 2006, which killed at least 450 people. There were also worries over the fragility of the glass in many of Shanghai's 5,000 skyscrapers, with several incidents so far this summer of plate glass ...

A tropical cyclone has killed at least 351 people in Burma and damaged thousands of buildings, according to state television. Parts of the Irrawaddy region were hit particularly badly, with three out of four buildings reportedly blown down in one district. Burma has declared Irrawaddy and four other regions, ...

Typhoon Saomai cut a swathe across south-east China, leaving at least 105 people dead and 190 missing. Saomai has now been downgraded to a tropical storm but more heavy rain and gales were forecast over the weekend. Official media said the storm destroyed more than 50,000 houses and caused ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert endorsed an emerging Mideast cease-fire deal late Friday, after a day of dramatic day brinksmanship including a threat to expand the ground war in Lebanon. The agreement calls for the deployment of 30,000 Lebanese and U.N. troops along the ...

August 11, 2006—A woman surveys the debris of her house in China's Zhejiang Province after it was struck by Typhoon Saomai—the most powerful storm to hit China in 50 years. Saomai has killed at least 104 people, caused massive blackouts, and destroyed more than 50,000 homes after making landfall yesterday in the ...

China's most powerful storm in 50 years, Typhoon Saomai, has left at least 104 people dead, officials say. The typhoon, which has now been downgraded to a tropical storm, was continuing to batter coastal regions with heavy rain and winds. More than a million people were evacuated from their homes to ...