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a megacity with a population of nearly 25 million has just faced a typhoon head-on.

at 12:00 on september 16, the center of typhoon bebejia was located in kunshan, jiangsu province. however, the circulation to its east has been affecting shanghai, and there will still be wind and rain in shanghai in the afternoon.

around 7:30 a.m. on september 16, the center of this year's 13th typhoon "bebejia" (strong typhoon level) landed in lingang new city, pudong, shanghai. when it landed, the maximum wind force near the center was 14 (42 meters per second) and the lowest central pressure was 955 hpa. bebejia thus became the strongest typhoon to land in shanghai since 1949.

on the morning of the typhoon's landing, many residents woke up and their first reaction was that the wind and rain had become noticeably stronger. soon, the main body of the typhoon began to affect shanghai, and the strongest wind and rain entered its heaviest period.

at the resettlement site of shanghai jianqiao university, the sound of wind and rain outside mixed with the sound of air conditioners inside, mixed with the sound of people chatting and mobile phone videos. the night before, more than 350 construction workers moved into the resettlement site, some of whom were workers at the school's construction site, and some were resettled personnel transferred from outside.

this resettlement site is within the jurisdiction of han feifei, an internal police officer at the lingang university police station of the pudong branch of the shanghai public security bureau. earlier that day, he and his colleagues had just completed patrols at multiple resettlement sites to ensure safety. at night, han feifei couldn't sleep. news about the typhoon approaching shanghai kept flashing on his screen. he had to be on duty at the police station to convey notices, guard the station, make contacts and arrange tasks.

september 15, 2024, shanghai pudong, han feifei communicates with resettlement site staff. shanghai pudong police provided

in fact, this was the third time that han feifei had been on duty during a typhoon since he joined the police force, and it was also the most stressful time for him - many subway lines in the city were suspended, all highways were closed and controlled, pudong, jinshan, fengxian and chongming districts issued a typhoon red warning and implemented "six stop" measures such as suspension of classes, suspension of work and suspension of operations.

over the past day and night, during the mid-autumn festival holiday that should have been a relaxing time, some people stayed up all night on duty, some patrolled in the rain, and some rushed around. the news was rolling in faster and faster, and the typhoon was getting closer and closer. in every corner of the city, countless people went all out to fight "bebejia" and race against the wind speed.

storm is coming

"xin xiangrong, xin xiangrong, this is jinshan maritime calling." "jinshan maritime, please speak, this is xin xiangrong."

"xin xiangrong, typhoon bebejia no. 13 will have a huge impact on the jinshan area. please prepare an evacuation plan and take measures to avoid the wind and resist the wind." "okay, xin xiangrong received it."

at 9:00 on september 14, at the no. 6 berth of shanghai petrochemical, the departing ship named "xin xiangrong" successfully completed the mission of ensuring 37,000 tons of electric coal before the typhoon. under the command of the jinshan maritime safety administration command center, it safely left the berth and entered the return channel.

not far away, at the jinshan corridor shengke fruit and vegetable professional planting cooperative, staff were replacing damaged greenhouse film that morning, and adding an elastic film pressing belt between each section of the steel structure to prevent the film from being blown away by strong winds and affecting the growth of vegetable seedlings. chen xiaoqin, the head of the cooperative, said that she would reinforce the greenhouse and use film pressing ropes to press other places more tightly, so that the typhoon resistance can be enhanced and the "vegetable basket" can be more effectively protected.

on september 14, the staff of the jinshan district cooperative were reinforcing the greenhouse. photo courtesy of shanghai jinshan

the concentrated development of these tasks is due to the deployment at the city level. on the morning of september 14, when inspecting and dispatching the city's flood and typhoon prevention work, chen jining, secretary of the municipal party committee, stressed that we must resolutely implement the important instructions of general secretary xi jinping on flood prevention and disaster relief work, maintain a state of readiness and a high degree of vigilance, and fully implement various measures with a sense of responsibility of "always worrying about it", go all out to fight the typhoon defense war, and ensure the safety of people's lives and property and the safe and orderly operation of super-large cities.

although it was the last working day before the mid-autumn festival, the city remained highly tense, and the full-process and multi-channel security work was intensively promoted. state grid shanghai electric power proposed to focus on re-inspection and re-management of dense channels, important transmission channels, fixed hidden danger points in cross-regional channels, tree barrier hidden danger points of overhead lines, and high-incidence areas of foreign body hidden dangers, and urgently trimmed more than 5,000 branches and greened more than 5,000 trees, dismantled 280 simple greenhouses, and reinforced 230 greenhouses; shanghai housing and construction system proposed to seize the "window period" before the typhoon landed, focusing on key areas, important facilities, key parts, major projects and historical dangerous points, and conducting in-depth and detailed safety hazard inspections and rectification work on construction sites, residential communities, underground spaces, gas facilities, outdoor advertising signs, glass curtain walls, etc. from september 14, shanghai suspended outdoor high-altitude operations.

on september 14, staff checked the wenhejing south pump gate. source: shanghai news

on september 14, the changning municipal center organized maintenance units to carry out special inspections to strengthen the cleaning of road rainwater outlets and the inspection of emergency drainage equipment in tunnels. source: shanghai news

state grid shanghai electric power staff conducts special inspections of underground stations on the eve of a typhoon. photo provided by the interviewee

at 17:00 on september 14, the shanghai meteorological observatory issued a typhoon blue warning signal, and the city's flood control headquarters decided to simultaneously launch a city-wide flood and typhoon level iv response action. on the 14th and 15th, as shanghai disneyland, shanghai planetarium, and parks and green spaces in various districts announced that they would suspend operations on the 16th, and as highways, flights, railways, and subways successively issued control measures, more citizens had a deeper sense of the arrival of "bebejia".

on september 16, shanghai disney’s xiaohongshu official account released a picture and text. screenshot of the platform

safe evacuation

before bebejia made landfall, many people were still unsure of its "strength". zhao yuanming, chief forecaster at the shanghai meteorological observatory, once said that bebejia was a typical "bullet-type" typhoon, which is small, fast-moving and erupts quickly. sure enough, at 14:00 on september 15, bebejia arrived at a location 415 kilometers from nanhuizui, puhai, shanghai, maintaining the typhoon level. the shanghai meteorological bureau upgraded the typhoon emergency response to level i, fully implemented various measures, and carried out refined meteorological services to cope with the impact of typhoon bebejia.

the work of evacuation and resettlement was the focus of the day. on the afternoon of the 15th, an evacuation operation was launched in the jinweisan residential area of ​​shihua street, jinshan district, shanghai.

on the afternoon of september 15, in the jinweisan residential area of ​​shihua street, jinshan district, community police and street staff went door to door to remind residents to evacuate and relocate. photo by xu zhenyao, reporter of the paper

this is an old residential area with low terrain, which is a "key protected object" during the typhoon season. the reporter learned that there are more than 990 residents in the residential area, mainly migrant workers, and some elderly people are local residents. most of them chose to find their own homes on the 15th, but there are still 70 people who need to be relocated, including some elderly people with difficulty in moving.

at about 15:00 on the same day, the paper reporter saw at the scene that police and street staff were knocking on doors in jinshan dialect to confirm if anyone was home. they tried their best to persuade residents who needed to be relocated to pack their luggage as soon as possible and take the transfer bus to the relocation site.

residents carried their bedding and luggage and boarded the bus one after another. during this process, the community police learned that an old man in his 50s could not stand on his own due to a stroke. the police immediately went to the old man's home, carried him on the police car, and sent the old man and his wife to where they were going.

an old man in his 50s was unable to stand on his own due to a cerebral infarction. the police carried him on their backs in a police car and transferred him to a nearby hotel. photo by xu zhenyao, reporter of the paper

in addition, there are many ongoing projects in lingang new area, and many construction workers need to be evacuated. reporters learned that as of 14:00 on september 15, more than 60,000 construction workers in lingang had been relocated. in addition to construction workers, the paper also visited a temporary resettlement site for truck drivers in lingang.

"i kept checking my phone and saw that a typhoon was coming to shanghai. i was a little panicked, but we were used to sleeping in the car, so we wanted to make do for one more night." ma xianying, a 53-year-old "veteran driver", has been engaged in transportation for more than 20 years and has also slept in the cab for more than 20 years. on september 14, he parked his car in a parking lot at the junction of pudong and fengxian and slept in the car. he originally wanted to continue living in the car on the 15th.

unexpectedly, in the evening of the 15th, the sky was overcast and the wind suddenly became stronger. ma xianying said that some truck drivers in the parking lot got out of their cars and looked around, shouting "the typhoon is really coming", and then staggered back to their cars. after a while, he saw some staff members walk into the parking lot and communicate with the drivers one by one, asking them to lead them to the temporary resettlement point of the lingang truck center to spend the night.

"free accommodation, free showers, and a safe place to sleep, i think it's great, everyone (drivers in the parking lot) followed me here." ma xianying said, "many drivers are like me, with families to support, who doesn't want to sleep peacefully."

on the evening of september 15, at the shanghai lingang container truck center, truck driver ma xianying and his wife spent the night at the resettlement point of the party and mass service center. photo by li jiawei, reporter of the paper

on the evening of september 15, the two-story building of the party and mass service station of shanghai lingang truck center was brightly lit. in order to ensure the safety of drivers overnight, a temporary settlement was set up here to provide food and accommodation for drivers in need. like ma xianying, hundreds of truck drivers moved in. fan jianrong, a relevant person in charge of lingang investment holding group, told the reporter of the paper that the parking spaces of lingang truck center were saturated that night. in addition to the 690 parking spaces being full, more than 90 trucks were parked on the nearby roads. the on-site area has strengthened guidance, and the pudong traffic police have been contacted in time to check the situation.

on the evening of september 15, at the shanghai lingang container truck center, truck driver cui. photo by li jiawei, reporter of the paper

defending shanghai

"bebejia" is getting closer and closer. on the 15th, the center of the typhoon moved northwestward at a speed of 20-25 kilometers per hour, and its intensity gradually increased.

on september 15, the office of the state flood control and drought relief headquarters sent an additional working group to shanghai to assist in guiding typhoon prevention work, and the zhejiang working group sent earlier continued to work on the front line. on the same day, in accordance with the unified deployment of the shanghai municipal party committee, relevant leaders of the municipal party committee and municipal government led teams to the 16 districts of the city and the lingang new area to inspect and supervise, promote the formation of a city-wide joint force, and resolutely fight and win the encounter and overall battles of typhoon defense.

under the overall deployment, shanghai’s public security, fire protection, water affairs, transportation, greening and urban appearance, civil affairs... all parties are also working continuously to form a joint force and fight tough battles.

as of 17:00 on september 15, more than 2,500 emergency rescue teams, 56,000 rescue personnel, 81 mobile pump trucks, and 415 flood control material warehouses in shanghai were ready and on standby; the public security department launched level one service, and all police officers in the city were on duty; 12,000 fire rescue officers and soldiers were assembled and on standby; 359 sanitation emergency teams were on standby, and about 18,000 emergency support personnel were on duty; 4,646 people were dispatched in the landscape department to carry out inspections of outdoor advertising, landscape lighting, and store signs and facilities; more than 250 emergency rescue teams in shanghai's road transport industry, with more than 2,200 people on standby 24 hours a day... how to weave a tighter safety net for the city is a common topic for all parties.

dangerous situations still occur from time to time. at around 8:30 on the 16th, a high-voltage line broke and pulled down a tree in the mudan community in zhangyan town, jinshan district, under the raging wind. sparks kept coming out of the scene, and 380 households in the community were without power. after receiving the report, the zhangyan power supply station, the emergency rescue team, the property, the fire department, the police station and other departments immediately activated the emergency plan and rushed to the scene to deal with it. the zhangyan power supply station was responsible for power repairs and temporarily cut off the power to the entire community; the civilian and auxiliary police of the zhangyan police station quickly set up a cordon and maintained order at the scene; to ensure safety, the emergency rescue team, the zhangyan fire brigade and other departments will deal with the fallen trees after the power repairs.

early in the morning of september 16, the high-voltage power lines in the mudan community in zhangyan town, jinshan district were blown down. photos in this article provided by jinshan district

the "vulnerable minority" of this city has not been forgotten. in the putuo railway new village residential area, the social work team is on duty. they contact the lonely and elderly people living alone in the residential area one by one by phone and door-to-door, patiently explain typhoon prevention knowledge, and help elderly people with special needs to buy daily necessities; at the hongkou district social assistance and welfare service center, the staff's patrol frequency has increased from three times a day to five times a day. on the 15th, they arranged for xiao jiang, a homeless outsider during the typhoon, to be accommodated in the station and provided with necessary supplies, and planned to arrange for him to return home after the typhoon... there are also delivery brothers who go in the wind and rain. on september 15, sun hezhuan, a deliveryman at dingdong maicai langao road station, told the paper that the typhoon hit the mid-autumn festival, and his orders on the 15th exceeded 80 orders, and almost all of them were large orders, while his orders per day are usually around 60 orders.

on september 15, deliveryman sun hezhuan was delivering an order. photo provided by the interviewee

however, as the typhoon approached, shanghai's takeaway and fresh food e-commerce platforms suspended delivery at around 22:00 on the 15th, and gradually resumed delivery services in the afternoon of the 16th. "i like to have many orders, but i don't like typhoon days. when there is a typhoon, there will be rain, and the rain will hit your face and you can't see the road clearly." sun hezhuan said frankly that as long as citizens have needs, there will always be someone to deliver the orders, but he also reminds himself to put safety first, not to speed, and not to cut in line.

of course, every citizen who reduces unnecessary outings and has safety awareness is indispensable in the fight against typhoons. as "bebejia" moved westward into jiangsu province, at around 15:00 on the 16th, the shanghai meteorological observatory updated the typhoon orange warning signal to a typhoon blue warning signal and lifted the orange warning signal for heavy rain. after the storm, many people are still busy protecting this city, eliminating dangerous conditions, clearing roads, dealing with fallen trees, and strengthening services for the elderly and the disabled.