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7/3/01
Typhoon Durian started out in the Northwestern Phillipines then moved through Taiwan before striking Southern China approximately some 300 miles Southwest of Hong Kong. Typhoon Durian made landfall on Sunday, July 1st, 2001, in the southern portion of the province of Guangdong, which was hit the hardest by the typhoon's 104 mph winds. Things have remained quiet elsewhere in the Atlantic and the Eastern and Central Pacific.
Typhoon Durian destroyed agricultural products such as sugarcane and bananas as well as thousands of farm animals. Typhoon Durian also had plenty of moisture as well as fierce winds as it dumped a foot of rain in Zhanjian located several hundred miles southwest of Hong Kong in Southern China. The damage from the heavy rains was extensive as nearly 13,000 homes were damaged or destroyed by the storm. The combination of high winds and heavy rain from Typhoon Durian knocked out power to some 70 percent of the homes in Zhanjian.
Moving to the Northeast, 11 people were hurt when the roof on a fruit market collapsed from the weight produced by the heavy rain in Yangjiang. Moreover, there were approximately 110 homes that were damaged by the storm in that municipality. On the island of Hainan, which recently saw the departure of the remnants of the U.S. spy plane that collided with a Chinese aircraft in April, and created a very tense standoff between the United States and China for a bit more than a week, the typhoon stranded about 2,000 passengers at the airport in the capital city of Haikou.
While there are still three people reported missing due to Typhoon Durian, newspapers and government run news agencies hailed the fact that early warnings about the pending fierce storm helped prevent even greater numbers of deaths and injuries. However, the storm still caused some $450 million dollars in damage throughout the Southern China region. Meanwhile, residents of that portion of the world were not completely out of the woods as another tropical system, Typhoon Utor, was coming from the Pacific.
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