After the Typhoon: Guangdong in Ruins, Beijing Suppresses the News #TyphoonMatmo

Ah, this roof is so scary. It's all blown away. It's all blown away. I don't have time to fix it. I don't know how to fix it. I don't know how to fix it. 9 00:00:58.080 --> 00:01:03.280 many decades of my incredibly hard work? You actually just really let me come here like this. Wow. Honestly. We really took a huge hit this time. Looking at all this wreckage left by the hurricane… My heart just hurts seeing this. This has had a huge impact on us in Zhejiang with severe losses. Farmers, ordinary people, those who raise livestock and those who plant crops, all of them have been greatly affected and the losses are really significant. Wow, look. This centuries-old tree has been blown down. The 100-year-old tree in Wenchun was toppled, completely uprooted. Wenchun has really suffered heavy losses this time. Really, look. These are all mango trees and those trees might have all fallen over. Even such beautiful trees can be blown down. The typhoon has just passed. It's gone to a sliver of hope, but now even that last bit of hope has been shattered. At this moment, farmers must be feeling a mix of emotions. Let me show you exactly what Haiku looks like right now. It's completely and utterly flooded, as you can clearly see. And my legs are like this now, just exactly like this. After the recent typhoon, some people are truly happy while others are quite sad. This is a magnificent wedding venue that reportedly cost $50 million to build. Now it looks like this. At least $30 million is going down the drain. It's been officially open for about half a year now and I honestly think it's only been utilized a mere two or three times at most. And now it's already in this state. That's precisely why they often say making money is truly hard, but spending it is incredibly easy. $30 million just like that, completely gone. On October 5th, Typhoon Matmo made landfall in Shuen, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, with wind speeds of level 14 and gusts of 15-16. Zhanjiang experienced fierce winds and heavy rain. After the typhoon, devastation was widespread. Fallen trees blocked streets, some large trees uprooted. Farmers and breeders suffered heavy losses. The typhoon damaged buildings, tore off roofs, shattered window glass, caused water and power outages, disrupted transportation, and closed several bridges, including the Bay Bridge. All expressways closed, railway services suspended, seawater backflowed from the coast, flooding city shops and residences. Ground floors became ponds, many vehicles submerged. This is a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Lin from Baogong, who worked on this land for eight whole months. Just as the bananas were about to be harvested, a natural disaster struck and wiped out all their hard work and livelihood. Look at Sister Lin, she said she absolutely hasn't eaten for several days. Seeing the ripe bananas, she cries every single day. I can clearly see she's still crying. You work like this every day. It was really hard, wasn't it? Over 300, Ma, that's a million. Several million fans have seen this. My labor costs alone are over 100,000 and no one has gotten paid. Boss, you haven't gotten paid either? No one has. Over 300 in you, that's a lot. Don't cry. Don't cry. Don't cry. Take a look. Our precious crops here in the vast countryside have all been completely flooded by the incessant rain. What truly worries me deeply is that after being submerged in the water, you can clearly see these delicate young seedlings have already sprouted, but for the elderly, hard-working farmers in our small village, their entire year of strenuous hard work will be utterly lost. So I really feel heartbroken. Yes, these are sweet potato leaves and they're about to be submerged by the water. Really, in our countryside, all of this is the result of a whole year's hard work by the farmers. So at this very moment, my heart truly aches. I don't even know what will happen to the people in our village. What will the uncles and aunties do now? After the typhoon, with just a single cough, everything here, everything has collapsed. This year, those currently working in agriculture, especially in the three southern provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan in the region, are facing new challenges. They have been hit extremely hard by the typhoon this year. Basically, there isn't a single banana tree left standing. It's all over. The beds are overturned. When I checked surveillance yesterday, the typhoon had already knocked them over. I have no idea where they've gone. They're no longer in their original spots. All fishing boats here have been washed ashore by the waves. Some flipped, some just gone. Nowhere to be seen. It's terrifying. These are iron beds washed ashore. They used to be anchored in the middle of the sea. Everything has been washed ashore. It's a heartbreaking sight. All those boats are piled up together. It's terrifying. We probably weren't crushed under anything. Look at this. It feels like a dream. Now that the dream is over, everything's gone. This typhoon caught everyone off guard. Just last night, business was booming, but when I woke up this morning, the shipping container was smashed and the refrigerator was gone. Even the folding tables and picnic benches were swept away by the waves. We were still holding out hope, thinking we could make a push during the National Day holiday, but now it's come to this. It's as if everyone's hard work this year might have just been wiped out completely. This is truly terrible. The recent typhoon has caused severe losses. Both of our glass doors were completely shattered, and then the floor is a total mess, and a lot of the ceiling panels have fallen down, too. How many Bay High farmers' hearts have been tested by typhoon drills at the work site The rice is now at a critical stage for irrigation, but it's all been flattened. When it's time to officially harvest the cowpeas, look, everything is lying flat. Isn't it tragic? And the melons, which are also at the crucial stage for pollination and fruit setting, are gone, too. The winter melons have basically been completely wiped out, and the bananas are even more heartbreaking. This entire area of bananas was almost ready for harvest, but now you see, they've all snapped. Even these thick banana stalks have completely broken. The cost of growing bananas is relatively quite high, averaging over 8,000 yuan per mu. Most banana farmers take out substantial loans to cover these costs, and now it's all gone. Natural disasters keep coming, with typhoons devastating Guangdong. Authorities only report good news, painting a picture of constant prosperity and endless entertainment. Netizens commented that after Matmoh swept through, everywhere was devastation. No water, no electricity, and ordinary people had no tears. A Guangzhou netizen said, I barely saw any reports about this in Guangzhou. No one cares? Netizen Bing Mumu said, My sister is in Guangzhou. I told her we were having a typhoon here, and she replied, You guys are having a typhoon. A netizen from Guangdong commented, Here in Shandong, we go through several typhoons like this every year. Bananas are grown every year, and in situations like this, it's always the banana farmers who have to bear the losses themselves. A netizen from Fujian said, Both of these typhoons were severe, but we barely saw information about them. A Guangdong netizen commented, Typhoons devastate annually. It's been this way since childhood, yet TV rarely reports it. A Beijing netizen said, During National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, they only report good news. A Shandong netizen added, This year, the north is also finished. We had a half-year drought. Crops grew poorly. When mature and ready for drying, it rained for half a month. In Shandong and Henan, major agricultural provinces, corn and peanuts rotted, molded, and sprouted in fields, but no news report.