Tropical Storm Krosa, which has forced more than 1.41 million people away from their homes on the Chinese mainland, returned to the East China Sea on Monday, leaving the eastern province of Zhejiang, Xinhua reported. Krosa re-entered the East China Sea at 5:30 p.m. from Sanmen County, according to the Zhejiang provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters. Krosa made landfall between Zhejiang and Fujian provinces on Sunday afternoon as a typhoon, the 16th this year, but it quickly weakened to a tropical storm without causing casualties on the mainland. However, more than 7.6 million people were affected, houses were destroyed, cropland and fish farms were flooded, schools and businesses closed and water facilities damaged as Krosa unleashed gale force winds and torrential rains through east China. Krosa has brought an average precipitation of more than 200 mm over the past two days in Fujian and Zhejiang, destroying at least3,500 houses and inundating parts of four counties, according to the flood control and drought relief headquarters of the two provinces. It has caused 460 million yuan in damage in Fujian, while Zhejiang reported losses of 7.5 billion yuan.
