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What Saomai Has Left!

Zhang Shi Qiu sits on the rubble of her destroyed house after it was hit by a typhoon in Cangnan, China August 11, 2006. Typhoon Saomai, the most powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades, raged across the southeastern coast Thursday, claiming at least 111 lives as it capsized ships, destroyed buildings and forced 1.5 million people from their homes.

A boy look at a flooded street after a typhoon in Cangnan, south China's Zhejiang Province August 11, 2006.

Family members carry the body of typhoon victim Lin Yuandeng to a hospital in Cangnan, south China's Zhejiang province August 11, 2006.

A villager in Cangnan County, east China's Zhejiang Province, points at collapsed houses Friday.

Several workers make repairations to power facilities disrupted by typhoon Saomai in Fuding County, east China's Fujian Province Friday, August 11, 2006. Saomai, the most powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades raged across the southeastern coast Thursday, claiming at least 111 lives as it capsized ships, destroyed buildings and forced 1.5 million people from their homes.

(China Daily, Xinhua News Agency August 12, 2006)

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