China’s CCTV news channel reported that Gaemi made landfall at 7:50 p.m. local time in Fujian province and is expected to unleash heavy rains over much of China as it heads to the northwest. State news agency Xinhua reported Chinese officials said they had evacuated more than 150,000 people in the province ahead of the storm.
Officials in Taiwan said businesses and schools were closed across much of northern Taiwan for a second day Thursday after Gaemi, the strongest storm to hit the island in eight years, swept through, flooding streets, knocking out power and leaving three people dead and hundreds injured.
Video posted on social media showed streets in the capital turned into rivers, with shops flooded and water reaching over the wheels of parked cars. Taiwan’s meteorological office said several areas of the island received more than 100 centimeters (39 inches) of rainfall between Wednesday night and midday Thursday
