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We've often accused Shanghai of trying too hard to emulate the other great metropolises of the world: London, New York, Paris. But it seems that, more and more, the city it will most likely resemble is Venice. According to a recent article by the Associated Press:

On Friday we all got a little nervous about Typhoon Morakot, with Xinhua warning everyone that it was unpredictable and crazy and could drench us all in dangerous winds and rain. Then the weekend hit and all Morakat seemed to do was spray us with what we'd already gotten in July anyway. What a relief. But wait! Now Shanghai Daily says that Morakot is actually going to hit the city TODAY, dumping rain ranging from 60 to 90mm per hour, according to the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau. It will be so bad, in fact, that seven teams have been sent to beef up deliveries of anti-flood material and patrol potential flood areas, while operators have been added to the 110 emergency telephone system. It's eye-hurtingly bright and sunny right now, but we'll be waiting by the window to see if this hell weather suddenly happens.

Xinhua reports:

More than 1.17 million people have been affected in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region by floods triggered by continuous heavy rain that started on Saturday.

Continue reading "34 dead and 1.17 million people affected in Guangxi's flood of the century"

                               

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If you were cooped up at home all day yesterday like us because of the heavy rains, then you probably have no idea that over a dozen roads were flooded all across the city. We heard parts of Huaihai Lu (where we live) were also flooded, but we were blissfully unaware of all that in the safety of our own homes. Anybody has pictures?

For those of you that have been complaining about the wet weather in Shanghai here over the weekend, our friends in southern China have been having it far worse. Heavy rain in Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces are causing water levels in rivers further downstream in in Jiangxi, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces to rise. Of course all this is doubly bad news for Sichuan which is still reeling from last month's earthquake. Over 1.27 million people have been evacuated across nine provinces, and economic losses already amount to over 10 billion yuan. Xinhua says vegetable prices in a few cities in Guangdong shot up between 30 percent and 70 percent on Saturday alone. Hong Kong has also been swamped by record rainfall (see video), and at least two people are now missing in landslides in the New Territories.