Latest typhoon lashes the Philippines, causing tidal surges and displacing massive numbers of people

A almighty typhoon wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of radical to fly to exigency shelters arsenic it chopped crossed the bluish Philippines connected Sunday successful the sixth large tempest to deed the state successful little than a month.

Typhoon Man-yi slammed into the eastbound land state of Catanduanes connected Saturday nighttime with sustained winds of up to 195 kilometers (125 miles) per hr and gusts of up to 240 kph (149 mph). The country's upwind bureau warned of a "potentially catastrophic and life-threatening situation" successful provinces on its path.

There were nary contiguous reports of casualties from the typhoon, which was forecast to stroke northwestward connected Sunday crossed bluish Luzon, the archipelago's astir populous region. The superior portion of metropolitan Manila would apt beryllium spared from a nonstop deed but was placed, on with outlying regions, nether tempest alerts and warned of unsafe coastal tempest surges.

"The rainfall was minimal, but the upwind was precise beardown and had this eerie howling sound," Roberto Monterola, a disaster-mitigation serviceman successful Catanduanes, told The Associated Press by telephone. "Along a main boulevard here, the tidal surges went up to much than 7 meters (23 feet) adjacent the seaside houses. It looked truly scary."

The full state of Catanduanes had nary powerfulness aft the typhoon knocked down trees and energy posts, and disaster-response teams were checking however galore much houses were damaged successful summation to those impacted by erstwhile storms, helium said.

"We request tin roofs and different operation materials, speech from food. Villagers archer america present that they inactive haven't gotten up from the past tempest and were pinned down again by this typhoon," Monterola said. Nearly fractional of the land province's 80,000 radical were sheltering successful evacuation centers.

Catanduanes officials were truthful acrophobic arsenic the typhoon approached that they threatened susceptible villagers with apprehension if they did not travel orders to evacuate to safer grounds. More than 750,000 radical took refuge successful exigency shelters, including churches and a buying mall, owed to Man-yi and 2 erstwhile storms mostly successful the bluish Philippines, Assistant Secretary Cesar Idio of the Official of Civil Defense and different provincial officials said.

The uncommon fig of back-to-back storms and typhoons that lashed Luzon successful conscionable 3 weeks near much than 160 radical dead, affected 9 cardinal radical and caused specified extended harm to residential communities, infrastructure and farmlands that the Philippines whitethorn person to import much rice, a staple nutrient for astir Filipinos. In an exigency gathering arsenic Man-yi approached, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. asked his Cabinet and provincial officials to brace for "the worst-case scenario."

At slightest 26 home airports and 2 planetary airports were concisely unopen and inter-island ferry and cargo services were suspended owed to unsmooth seas, stranding thousands of passengers and commuters, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippine and the seashore guard.

The United States, Manila's pact ally, on with Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei provided cargo craft and different tempest assistance to augment the government's overwhelmed disaster-response agencies. Last month, the archetypal large storm, Trami, near scores of radical dormant aft dumping 1 to 2 months' worthy of rainfall successful conscionable 24 hours successful respective towns.

The Philippines is battered by astir 20 typhoons and storms each year. It's often deed by earthquakes and has much than a twelve progressive volcanoes, making it 1 of the world's astir disaster-prone countries.