Typhoon Meranti hits Taiwan and China
Typhoon Meranti battered southeastern China with heavy winds and torrential rain on Thursday, cutting power, ripping up trees and smashing windows, a day after lashing Taiwan. The super typhoon, packing winds of 170 kilometres per hour (105 miles per hour) made landfall around 3am near the city of Xiamen before heading inland, state media said. Images from Xiamen showed flooded streets, uprooted trees, and traffic signs torn from their posts by the violent winds. There were no reports of any casualties. The Xinhua news agency described the storm as the most powerful to hit Fujian province in at least 67 years, with meteorological records only going back to the founding of modern China in 1949. (AFP) See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Tumblr
