Typhoon grounds flights in S Korea

AFP, SEOUL: Domestic flights were cancelled in South Korea Sunday as Typhoon Chan-hom brought strong winds and heavy rainfall to southwestern provinces, after wreaking substantial damage in China.
The storm grounded more than 150 domestic flights nationwide, airport authorities said. International flights were not affected.
A strong wind and rainstorm alert has been issued along South Korea's southern and western coastal areas, which received up to 291 millimetres (11.4 inches) of rain.
Authorities in China evacuated more than a million people as the typhoon swiped the eastern coast on Saturday, paralysing transport links and devastating farmland, although no casualties were reported, the Chinese government and state media said.
Huge waves struck the coast in Wenling, in the east of worst-hit province Zhejiang, while further north people in the city of Shaoxing scrambled onto diggers and dragged themselves along ropes to escape the
floodwaters.

 

Typhoon grounds flights in S Korea

AFP, SEOUL: Domestic flights were cancelled in South Korea Sunday as Typhoon Chan-hom brought strong winds and heavy rainfall to southwestern provinces, after wreaking substantial damage in China. The storm grounded more than 150 domestic flights nationwide, airport authorities said. International flights were not affected. A strong wind and rainstorm alert has been issued along South Koreas southern and western coastal areas, which received up to 291 millimetres (11.4 inches) of rain. Authorities in China evacuated more than a million people as the typhoon swiped the eastern coast on Saturday, paralysing transport links and devastating farmland, although no casualties were reported, the Chinese government and state media said. Huge waves struck the coast in Wenling, in the east of worst-hit province Zhejiang, while further north people in the city of Shaoxing scrambled onto diggers and dragged themselves along ropes to escape the floodwaters.