ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Typhoon Haikui made landfall in China after weakening to a tropical storm on Wednesday (August 8), bringing heavy rains till Saturday which claimed at least 17 lives and forced over two million to leave their homes.<br/> <br />Wooden planks and boats have replaced cars as the default mode of transportation in Jingdezhen city (pron: Jing-der-jen) in the south-eastern inland Jiangxi province, state media reported.<br/> <br />State television showed vendors scrambling to save their wares from the flood waters which reached waist-height in some places.<br/> <br />Rescuers helped more than 1,800 residents to evacuate their flooded homes as of 1800 local time (1000 GMT) on Saturday, state television reported.
