Typhoon Dolphin Hits China, Forcing One Million Evacuations

Dolphin was a very big storm that lived a long time. Chinese state television said it travelled about 6,000 kilometres before it reached land, so it lived more than three times longer than a normal typhoon. Although it never landed in the Philippines, it made the monsoon rains there much stronger. Those rains flooded northern Luzon. On Saturday the storm also brought rain to northern Taiwan.

Life in eastern China was badly affected, and Shanghai's two airports cancelled about 60 percent of Sunday's flights. Wenzhou moved about 900,000 people and opened more than 1,000 shelters. Parts of Disneyland and Legoland closed, and state media showed ankle-deep water in an old part of Shanghai. State media also reported that a nine-year-old boy is missing after the sea swept him away. Forecasters warned of more heavy rain and landslides until Wednesday.