Shanghai Faces Flooding as Second Typhoon Hits Days After Historic Storm. Roads and neighborhoods flooded on Friday (Sep 20) as the Chinese megacity experienced severe weather just days after its strongest storm in 75 years.
A video published by state-owned Shanghai Media Group showed police officers in high-vis coats pushing a stalled car through water in Shanghai, while a scooter driver in a poncho attempted to cross a flooded intersection.
Around a dozen cars had broken down in that area due to the waters, according to the video.
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.
Scientists say climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions is making extreme weather more frequent and intense.
China is the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, though its per capita emissions pale in comparison to rival economic power the United States.
