The tropical cyclone Hagupit which swept away from Macao on Wednesday morning caused much damage to the city's infrastructures and rendered local streets waterlogged, Xinhua reported. The storm brought heavy showers and strong winds, flooding many low-lying districts of the city and battering roadside trees and public facilities. Some 2,000 residences and shops were affected when power supply failure occurred in the waterlogged Inner Harbordistrict, the city's power supplier CEM said. The power supply recovered Wednesday afternoon. Even six sets of the city's traffic lights broke down after the cyclone swept the city, and the police were seen to direct traffic in some busy crossing points so as to avoid turmoil on the road. The severe storm also caused 218 maritime, building and road accidents, which saw five people injured, according to the city's Civil Defense Center. After moving the closest to Macao last night, Hagupit made landfall on China's southern coastal province Guangdong early this morning. The Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) lowered the gale signal No. 8, which was hoisted last night, at 9:30 p.m. and all signals were lowered in the afternoon.
