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BEIJING: Trees fell on moving vehicles, a whale washed ashore and a freezer full of ice cream floated in the flood. Hurricane Telem It made its way through southern China’s provinces on Tuesday.
Videos on Chinese social media showed pedestrians flailing and struggling against the wind, roads flooded and onlookers crowded around the whale on the beach in the dark.
Talim, the first typhoon to make landfall in China this year, hit the coast late Monday night in Guangdong Province, and quickly weakened into a tropical storm. It moved overnight into the Beibu Gulf, and by early Tuesday it had made landfall again and moved into the southern region of Guangxi.
The China Meteorological Administration said winds had decreased to a maximum of 25 m/s (90 km/h or 56 mph) near the center of Telem as of 8 a.m. (0000 GMT). It added that the storm was expected to weaken further and fade as it moved northwest into northern Vietnam later on Tuesday.
In Guangdong, after Talim’s death, firefighters rescued passengers trapped in cars by fallen tree branches as they removed roadblocks and helped other motorists to safety, according to state media.
Nearly 230,000 people were evacuated in Guangdong on Monday before the storm hit, according to Xinhua news agency.
Xinhua said local authorities in Guangdong also ordered the closure of 68 coastal tourist destinations, recalled 2,702 fishing vessels, and ordered the evacuation of 8,262 fish farming workers ashore.
In the city of Nanning in Guangxi, state media reported that 35 passenger train services have been disrupted and 26 flights canceled since Monday. In Hainan, an island province south of Guangdong, rail services gradually returned on Tuesday morning after being suspended the day before.
The effects of the typhoon were felt more than 1,000 km to the northeast in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. Residents there talked about counting their blessings for being safe after vehicles, furniture and household appliances were washed or damaged by floods, according to a video posted on social media.



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