SHANGHAI — Streets and neighborhoods in Shanghai were flooded on Friday as the Chinese megacity was hammered by a second typhoon days after it was hit by its strongest storm in 75 years.
Typhoon Pulasan made landfall on Thursday night in the city's Fengxian district, with a maximum wind speed of 23 meters per second, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.The storm 'is forecast to gradually weaken as it moves inland,' Xinhua said, though downpours continued in the city on Friday morning.
Parts of Shanghai upgraded their typhoon alert levels as the storm approached the city on Thursday.Pulasan comes days after Typhoon Bebinca wreaked havoc on Monday as the strongest storm to hit the megacity since 1949.Bebinca felled more than 1,800 trees and left 30,000 households without electricity, with authorities evacuating more than 400,000 people across Shanghai ahead of the storm.
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