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Aug 12, 10:00 AM (ET)
By Ben Blanchard
LANPING VILLAGE, China (Reuters) - Lin Xianglian was cowering in his kitchen from the strongest typhoon to hit China in half a century when he heard a roar and the house next door collapsed.
"I didn't dare go look what was happening. The wind was so strong my wife and I together were leaning on the front door to stop it blowing in and water was flooding in the back," recalls farmer Lin, 68, sipping tea from a metal bowl.
A resident of Jinxiang, China's eastern province of Zhejiang August 12, 2006, stands in front of his destroyed house following Typhoon Saomai. Typhoon Saomai punched into Cangnan County on Thursday after authorities had moved hundreds of thousands in the densely populated commercial province to safety. REUTERS/Nir Elias
"We could do nothing as my two neighbors got buried alive."
Aid arrived in time for them to be dug out alive, but Lin says he has no idea where his friends are now or if they survived their injuries.