Typhoon Haitang landed the southeastern coast of Chinese mainland Tuesday afternoon, after battered Taiwan province and rolled across the Taiwan Straits.
After having lingered 28 hours at the Taiwan Straits, the torrential storm attacked Huangqi Peninsula of east China's Fujian Province at 7:10 p.m., according to sources with the provincial flood control and drought relief department.
The entire Fujian Province reported moderate to heavy rain and high winds Monday night and Tuesday morning. In coastal areas in the central and northern parts of the province, the wind scale was measured from eight to 10.
Heavy rainfall also made the Saijiang River, a branch of Minjiang River, surpassed the warning water level. Ningde areas of Fujian province has suffered rare floods, which forced local government to evacuate more than 100,000 people.
