Excuse me, what level was Typhoon Sang Mei on 08, 2006?

Grade 17 or above. On August 10, 2006, the super typhoon "Sang Mei", with strong winds above 17, covered with dark clouds and heavy rain, set off a huge wave of 10 m in the East China Sea and attacked the southeast coastal areas of China.

This is the super typhoon with the strongest wind and the lowest central pressure that landed in Chinese mainland since the founding of New China. Meteorological monitoring showed that its maximum wind speed reached 68 meters per second, exceeding the maximum wind speed of 60 meters per second of Hurricane Katrina which hit New Orleans last year.

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Under the attack of this super typhoon, no more than 3,000 fishermen near the typhoon landing point in Cangnan County were killed or injured, and no more than 100 fishing boats sank. Zhang, the county magistrate of Cangnan County, said that in the past, according to tradition, all ships had to stay when a typhoon struck. When the wind is strong, the fishing boat will not sink when it runs against the wind.

However, from the forecast, we know that Sang Mei is too powerful this time, so we urgently ask all fishermen to go ashore. If they don't listen to advice, take compulsory measures to pull them ashore. /kloc-on the morning of 0/0, more than 3,000 fishermen finally evacuated safely.

In order to reduce the loss of fishermen and prevent fishing boats from being overturned and sunk by strong winds and waves, the Cangnan county government also "skillfully used a series of tricks" to lock all hundreds of fishing boats in Ba 'ao Port with chains to form a huge "aircraft carrier", which played an unexpected windproof effect. When the typhoon landed, only some fishing boats in the port were damaged, but none of them sank.

People's Daily Online -2006: Zhejiang's ruling ability to resist "Sang Mei" was tested.