 | Chinese residents salvage their what is left of their belongings after a flash flood when Kaemi weakened into a tropical depression and made landfall in the village of Shangyou in southern China's Jiangxi province, Wednesday July 26, 2006. As Typhoon Kaemi roared toward China's crowded southeast, Dr. Yang was sealing his apartment windows against the pounding rain in the coastal city of Jinjiang when his cell phone buzzed to life with a government warning. More often used by gossipy teen-agers, mobile phone messages have become a key tool for Chinese authorities who need to alert millions of villagers and fishermen during this year's unusually powerful typhoon season. |
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