Posted on 10/17/2015 6:38:21 PM PDT by moose07
Authorities in the Philippines have cancelled flights and ordered thousands of people in coastal areas to evacuate as Typhoon Koppu hits the country.
The slow-moving storm made landfall near the town of Casiguran on the main island of Luzon on Sunday morning.
Koppu is predicted to bring three days of torrential rain, triggering floods, storm surges and possibly landslides.
Disaster officials said a few thousand people living in vulnerable coastal areas had already sought shelter.
Earlier, President Benigno Aquino made a televised warning, the first time he had done so since Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, which killed more than 6,300 people.
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That storm developed over Guam. Then another one right after it.
It has been raining hard here for a week
The vegetables & Flowers like it but I wish we could get a few sunny days
You are well clear of the thing,Yes?
6 feet of rain is forecast for Manila.
Prayers up for you’all...
Brilliant sunshine here. I hope they are ok up there.
6 feet? Wow.
We have another tropical depression right over us. It has basically been raining 5 to 8 inches a day for several days That is pretty normal for this time of year here. About Christmas time the dry season will start and we’ll have lovely weather for 5 to 6 months
Will it eat China’s man made island ?
No, the predicted track is north out of PI.
Let's see.
That is a lot of rain.
But the 5/6 months of Sun sounds good. :)
If it is constructed as badly as everything else they make.....
The problem with the sun being out, is it tends to get blistering hot. I prefer the clouds.
The best thing about Guam is the weather
The rainy months are cooler and in the dry months we go snorkeling
Honeymooned in the norther luzon mountains. I think those road will be washed out.
My sil in Cavite spoke of heavy rain yesterday, but we haven’t tried to contact since
Yes, I have been to Cavite myself. I hope they are OK. Nothing at all, here in Davao. I didn't even know there was a typhoon, till I read about it here, on this thread. I need to get out more, huh?
:-)
we got flooded when they opened the floodgates to lower the water in the dam which was threatening to spill over. Most of the town flooded..we are on high ground so only got an inch in the raised house, but 4 inches in the garage and meeting rooms. We slept upstairs, and have a generator and water pump so we did not get badly hurt. But a lot of damage to the town, and the rice crop was partly destroyed.
The winds weren’t too bad...only a couple of trees down
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