The huge typhoon already causing fatal floods in Taiwan, bringing fatal floods to Taiwan, where 14 are dead and 124 are missing, jutting out into one of the world’s most densely populated coasts, bringing hurricane winds and heavy rains in cities in southern China, such as Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
A few days ago, Typhoon Ragatha, the strongest storm on the planet so far this year, had passed through remote islands in the Philippines and mountainous regions of Taiwan. It left a trajectory of damage, caused landslides and enormous waves, and forced over a million people in southern China to evacuate.
The lake defeated the bank in Taiwan’s East Healian County on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people and quickly left rescuers to find more than 100 people who were still missing on Wednesday morning local time.
As the storm approached Hong Kong’s international financial hub early Wednesday, trees fell, destroying scaffolding from the building, reaching a gust of wind at 168 km/h (104.39 mph). One of the CNN reporters on the ground said the ocean slammed the sidewalk near Hong Kong’s iconic port, causing the ocean to swell.
The video, which is circulating on social media, appears to show a surge in storms shattering glass doors at seaside hotels, with huge waves blowing into the lobby, cleaning people from their feet. CNN could not independently verify the video and contacted the hotel for comment.
Wind has 8 million people together in Hong Kong and Macau, with schools, businesses and public transport being largely closed and prompting the best hurricane warning signals to be issued. In some areas on Wednesday, the Hong Kong Observatory warned that a surge in storm surge could reach up to four metres.
Other cities along China’s southern coast are also seeking shock. The country’s southern Guangdong province had evacuated more than 1 million people before the typhoon arrived by Tuesday evening, and more than 10,000 ships had moved to safer waters to avoid the storm. More than 38,000 firefighters are on standby, according to state-run outlet Xinhua.
The area is extremely populous and tens of millions of people can be affected by typhoons, but that is well prepared too. These cities are frequently located on Stormpath, allowing them to develop sophisticated infrastructure and combat weather-related dangers. This includes a huge $3.8 billion drainage network that saved Hong Kong from floods decades ago by routinely sacrificing its own.
This year was particularly stormy. Hong Kong typically experiences around six typhoons each year, but according to Hong Kong’s City University, Lagatha marks its ninth typhoon to date this year.
When the storm, also known as Typhoon Nand, first landed in the northern Philippines, it was the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane. It is easily seen from space, showing the eyes of the storm in the eyes of the storm in the white clouds.
It’s slightly weakened, but another storm called Opon is intensifying in the Philippines in the aftermath of Ragatha.
Four deaths have been reported in the Philippines so far, but this is still being verified, according to the state-run Philippine News Agency.
