A powerful gust of wind shattered balcony glass doors as Typhoon Ragasa battered China last month.

CCTV footage shows the sudden blast pulling the sliding panels outward as the storm swept through Jiangmen, Guangdong, on September 24.

Two clothes racks were dragged nearly outside, while a grey curtain flailed violently in the wind.

Shards of glass were left scattered across the living room floor as the typhoon continued to rage outside.

The typhoon made landfall along the coast of Hailing Island in Yangjiang city at about 5 p.m. local time, packing maximum sustained winds of up to 144 kph (89 mph).

Authorities ordered schools and businesses closed in at least ten cities as citizens braced for Ragasa's landfall in Guangdong province.

Local media reported that nearly 1.9 million people were relocated across the region amid the storm's onslaught.
In Zhuhai city, huge waves pounded the coastline while powerful winds uprooted trees under the extreme weather conditions.

Super Typhoon Ragasa, described as the strongest storm of the year so far, has wreaked havoc across East Asia after tearing through the northern tip of the Philippines and Hong Kong, killing at least 10 people in the Philippines and displacing thousands. Taiwan has also reported 17 fatalities linked to the storm.

Ragasa first made landfall in the Philippines' remote and impoverished Babuyan Islands at about 3 p.m. local time on Monday, September 22. Its arrival compounded weeks of severe flooding caused by an unusually intense monsoon season.

In Hong Kong, authorities grounded more than 700 flights from Tuesday evening as the storm barrelled toward the Chinese coast. Panicked residents also cleared grocery shelves while preparing to hunker down in their homes.