Shanghai escapes wrath of typhoon

Jongdari, the second typhoon to hit Shanghai in less than two weeks, made landfall on Friday morning in the city's Jinshan district but caused no major damage.

By 12:07 pm, the city had cleared its alert for Jongdari, the 12th typhoon this year. It packed winds of up to 83 kilometers per hour near its center when it landed, and kept moving northwestward as its strength waned.

But the rainstorm it caused resulted in flooding in the Hangzhou Bay New Zone in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Some roads had sections of more than 1 kilometer under water, while some of the sewers were blocked.