Typhoon Saomai

The typhoon Saomai ( Saomai is Vietnamese for the planet Venus ) was the eighth typhoon of 2006 and followed shortly after the typhoon Prapiroon. On the five-step Saffir -Simpson Hurricane Scale, he was classified as a Category 5 typhoon ( super typhoon ). He was the worst typhoon in China for 50 years

On 10 August 2006, the Typhoon reached the mainland south of Shanghai in Zhejiang Province. In the landfall he was still considered a typhoon category four and had wind speeds of up to 270 km / h Earlier, about 999,000 people in Zhejiang and 570,000 people were evacuated in Fujian province. In addition, 44,000 ships were ordered to the ports. On Sunday August 13, the storm subsided and was downgraded to a Tropical Depression. The storm caused at least 295 people died, with 94 more were still missing on August 15. The storm destroyed about 50,000 houses and taught according to estimates of a loss of 1.1 billion U.S. dollars.

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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies put to August 11, 2006, approximately 1.8 million Chinese yuan of relief supplies and financial aid to the victims in the People's Republic of China. The Chinese government said the areas affected by Saomai and previous storms of the season regions to 120 million yuan to disaster relief. These funds were used primarily for the care of homeless residents with food and drinking water as well as for the reconstruction of Zhejiang and Fujian.

The name Saomai was deleted at 39th Annual Meeting of the ESCAP / WMO Typhoon Committee in Manila in December 2006 from the list of names of tropical cyclones.

In December 2007, the committee chose the name Son Tinh to replace Saomai.