周三，台风“海葵”登陆中国的商业中心上海，给该市带来了大风暴雨，造成至少两人死亡，商业活动暂时中断。
Zhang Zhenyuan/Xinhua via Zuma Press图片：台风“海葵”来袭台风“海葵”周三导致700多个航班被取消，数千艘船只靠岸躲避。以上海为中心的人口众多的长江三角洲地区均受到此次台风的侵袭。这一地区人口约有一亿，其经济产出在全国的占比超过三分之一。
台风在周三上午登陆制造业大省浙江，新华社估计台风给浙江造成的经济损失约为16亿美元。
上海市有关部门说，一名女子被飞溅的玻璃击中，这是该市首例伤亡报告。这是七年来袭击上海的最具破坏性的一场暴雨。一座宿舍倒塌导致一名上海男子死亡，另有报告说七人严重受伤。
对于这座有着2,300万人口的城市来说，“海葵”带来的大风暴雨还是带来了很大不便。暴雨导致了轻微内涝，居民出行受阻，衣服被淋湿。由于提前收到“海葵”将至的预警，一些企业没有开工，在当地气象部门将台风警报升至红色最高级别后，很多企业在中午就让员工回家了。周四清晨前后台风警报解除，有关负责人说台风风力已经减弱。
浙江沿海城市受“海葵”影响最为强烈。台风在温州和宁波之间登陆时风力高达每小时150公里，此后台风向北影响上海和苏州等城市。有关部门对新华社说，沿台风移动路线地区超过150万人被疏散，其中约有37.4万人来自上海东郊地势较低的农村地区。
ZUMAPRESS.com周三在浙江，猪圈被淹。据有关部门介绍，在24小时内，各航空公司在上海两大机场共取消了708个航班。航空公司也取消了包括杭州在内的其它地区机场的多个航班。从周二晚上开始，在上海全球最繁忙的集装箱码头，相关业务中断，因为有关部门下令船只在台风来临前进港。台风还令地铁和高铁停运。
上海陆家嘴金融区的银行照常营业，但周三下午瓢泼大雨使能见度降到几乎为零。雨水漫上了人行道，把商场和摩天大楼变成了孤岛。强风暴雨中雨伞根本不顶用。
就在几周前，由于排水系统失灵，一场暴雨夺去了首都北京77人的生命。上海有关部门向当地媒体强调，他们将全力应对内涝。那些住所和街道齐高的居民在家门口堆起了沙袋。在上海原法租界的一条街道上，十多名警察和消防员徒手清理排水管道内的树叶和堵塞物，试图降低已经蔓延多个街区的积水。这些积水没过了人的脚踝。在上海其它街区，一群农民工正在进行清污工作。其中不乏像周大理（音）这样头发斑白的清洁工。周三下午，身着肮脏的橙色工作服的周大理浑身湿透，他说自己已经在浦东一条高速路入口的排水管道清污接近12小时。他指着一堆已经清理出的树叶，在风中大声说，污物还在不断增加。
James T. Areddy
At least two people died Wednesday in a typhoon that quieted business activity in the Chinese commercial center of Shanghai as it dumped heavy amounts of rain in high winds.
Typhoon Haikui led to the cancellation of more than 700 flights on Wednesday, while thousands of ships were moored as the storm was felt throughout China's crowded Yangtze Delta region around Shanghai, a region of around 100 million that represents more than a third of the country's economic output.
The storm made landfall early Wednesday in the manufacturing province of Zhejiang, where Xinhua news agency estimated its economic losses around $1.6 billion.
Shanghai authorities listed a woman hit by flying glass as the city's first casualty of what appeared to be the most disruptive storm to hit the city in about seven years. A collapsed dormitory killed a Shanghai man, while seven serious injuries were also reported.
For many in the city of 23 million, Haikui's windblown rains were a nuisance. The storm caused minor flooding, delayed travel and left residents soaked. Warned of Haiku's approach, some businesses didn't open and many more let workers go home around noon after the local weather bureau raised its typhoon alert to its highest level, red. Storm warnings were dropped around dawn Thursday, as officials said the system was weakening.
Haikui could be felt through Friday as it slowly heads west from Shanghai, according to a China Meteorological Administration statement.
Serious damage appeared limited, and commercial activity continued. The all-electronic Shanghai Stock Exchange traded a normal but subdued session. Key indexes rose a minuscule amount ahead of economic data due Thursday that could provide investors a better sense of the seriousness of China's economic slowdown.
Haikui was felt strongest in Zhejiang coastal cities, where it landed with winds of up to 150 kilometers (93 miles) an hour between Wenzhou and Ningbo before turning north toward Shanghai and cities like Suzhou. More than 1.5 million people were evacuated along the storm path, including about 374,000 from a low-lying rural eastern edge of Shanghai, authorities told Xinhua news agency.
Airlines canceled 708 flights in a 24-hour period at Shanghai's two major airports, according to the bureau that administers them, while carriers also suspended service at other regional airports, including Hangzhou. The world's busiest container-handling port in Shanghai had interrupted operation starting late Tuesday, as authorities ordered ships to harbor ahead of the storm. The storm prompted closure of subways and high-speed trains.
Banks stayed opened in Shanghai's Liujiazui financial district, though thick, erratic downpours reduced visibility to almost zero on Wednesday afternoon. Rainwater lapped over curbs, turning shopping malls and skyscrapers into islands.Umbrellas offered little protection from the wet, gale force winds.
Weeks after bad drainage was blamed for killing 77 in the nation's capital of Beijing, authorities in Shanghai stressed in comments to local media that they would combat flooding. For residents living at street level, some were setting sand bags at their door stoops.On one street in Shanghai's former French Concession, more than a dozen police and firefighters were using their hands to scoop leafs and other debris from drains in an effort to lower ankle-high water that pooled over several blocks.Elsewhere in Shanghai, the dirty work was being done by an army of migrant workers like Zhou Dali, a grizzled street sweeper. Soaked in a filthy orange jumper on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Zhou said he had been grabbing detritus from a single drain near a Pudong highway entrance for almost 12 hours. He pointed to a pile of leaves he already collected and shouted above the wind, 'They just keep going in.'
James T. Areddy