In September, this year's No.9 tropical storm has brought rain fall in most areas in Guangdong Province and released the potential drought in the east of Guangdong. But it also damaged some water conservancy and transportation facilities in the six counties of Jieyang, Shanwei, and Meizhou. 76towns and 9306,000 people are affected; two people died of this disaster; over 1400 houses collapsed. The direct economic loss climbed to 137 million yuan.