Weatherlawyer wrote:

FUZHOU, Oct. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- More than 210,000 people off shore in
east China's Fujian Province have been evacuated Sunday before the
coming of Typhoon Longwang. Local governments are transferring people
on the low lands of the coastal region. They were moved from boats and
aquiculture farms in Ningde, Fuzhou, Putian, Quanzhou, Xiamen and
Zhangzhou.

The BBC has produced a great deal of coverage of the recent storms in
the USA...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/...na/default.stm
.... making it look like other parts of the world have not also been hit
by similar devastation.