14,000 people were moved to refuge zones like school gyms and town halls and a tanker ship was blown from it's anchorage at sea into a bridge in southern Japan.
Additional cables, called backstays, were connected to anchorages behind each tower to balance the horizontal forces, similar to the way suspension bridges work with their towers and abutment anchorages.
Dalian radio(on VHF): attention all vessels , this is dalian radio . typhoon no. 5 will land in the next four hours. All vessels at mooring must move to the sheltered anchorage. Over.
Chao Gai, Gongsun Sheng, the three brothers Ruan, and the ten fishermen embarked on seven small boats and left the anchorage of the Shijie Village, and went to the Li Family Village.
Port statistics suggest it's been a record year for the number of oil vessels calling at the ports of Fujairah, with as many as 12,500 vessels stopping at its offshore anchorage area.
Dalian Radio: (on VHF) Attention all vessels. This is Dalian Radio. Typhoon No. 5 will land in the next four hours. All vessels at mooring must move to the sheltered anchorage, over.
And since the nearest major port is an anchorage on the other side of the state, the road network would have to be built first before the bridge for the supplies to be able to get there.
He knew the Petronel was coming in—had seen her through his glasses before he went to the party—and so he looked for her now, and saw her lying not at the jetty, but out in the water at anchor.