L059-CHINA TIFON DOLPHIN
Typhoon Dolphin flooded citrus farmland and toppled power poles in China's Zhejiang province on Monday (August 10), as strong wind and torrential rain swept through the country’s eastern province, state broadcast CCTV reported.
Footage aired by CCTV showed rescuers clearing drainage in flooded farmland and repairing power lines in the coastal city of Xiangshan.
Dolphin packed maximum sustained winds of 151 kph near its centre when it made landfall in Zhejiang, the province to the south and west of Shanghai, on Sunday (August 9) evening before weakening to a tropical storm.
Its remaining rain clouds continued to soak the eastern provinces including Anhui, Jiangsu and Shandong on Monday.
The strongest typhoon to hit China this year, Dolphin is forecast to move deeper inland to the central provinces of Hubei and Henan in the coming days while also pushing moisture north.
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Typhoon Dolphin floods farmlands, topples power poles in eastern China
VIDEO SHOWS: FLOODED CITRUS FARMLAND / EMERGENCY PERSONNEL REPAIRING POWER LINES / TRAFFIC MOVING IN RAIN / AERIAL VIEW OF FLOODED FARMLAND AND VILLAGE
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SHOWS: XIANGSHAN, ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA (AUGUST 10, 2026) (CCTV - No use China)
1. VARIOUS OF FLOODED CITRUS FARMLAND
2. FLOODWATER
3. VARIOUS OF FLOODED CITRUS FARMLAND
4. VARIOUS OF RESCUERS CLEARING DRAINAGE CHANNELS
5. FLOODWATER BEING DRAINED
6. VARIOUS OF FALLEN TREE BRANCHES
7. TOPPLED POWER POLE
8. RESCUERS REMOVING TOPPLED POWER POLES
UNKNOWN LOCATION, CHINA (AIRED ON AUGUST 10, 2026) (CCTV - No use China)
9. VARIOUS OF EMERGENCY PERSONNEL REPAIRING POWER CABLES
10. AERIAL VIEW OF FLOODED FARMLAND
11. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WORKING IN FLOODED FARMLAND
12. VARIOUS OF RESCUE EFFORTS IN PROGRESS
13. AERIAL VIEW OF FLOODED STREET
14. RESCUERS REMOVING SILT SOIL
15. TRAFFIC MOVING IN FLOODED STREET
16. TRAFFIC MOVING IN RAIN
17. VARIOUS OF RAINFALL
18. VARIOUS OF FLOODED STREET
19. TRAFFIC MOVING IN RAIN
20. PEOPLE HOLDING UMBRELLA AND WALKING IN RAIN
21. VARIOUS OF RAINFALL
22. VARIOUS OF FLOODWATER BEING DRAINED
23. EXCAVATOR REMOVING DEBRIS ON STREET
24. AERIAL VIEW OF FLOODED VILLAGE
25. PEOPLE WADING IN FLOODS
26. DEBRIS
27. RESCUERS MOVING LIFE BOAT
28. RESCUERS EVACUATING RESIDENTS WITH LIFE BOAT