This is the moment people in China hold on to swaying trees during a typhoon to stop them from toppling onto nearby parked cars.

In the first video, the typhoon is seen when it struck the district of Pudong in the Chinese city of Shanghai on 26th July.

Two security guards at a car park are seen holding onto one tree in the strong wind to prevent it from toppling onto surrounding vehicles.

Wearing waterproof clothing, the guards use their body weight on either side of the trunk to keep it rooted in position.

One security guard, named as Zhu Congjun, said the tree would definitely have hit a nearby car if they did not support it with their bodies.

Congjun added: “A dozen or so car owners also came downstairs to help and together we put the tree down safely in an open space between the parked vehicles.”

In the second video, which took place in the city of Suzhou in southeastern Jiangsu province in China several workers are seen holding back another swaying tree in the car park.

The tree is bending towards a white car and is only centimetres away from damaging the bodywork.

Without the workers pulling it in the opposite direction, the tree would apparently damage the white car.