When the most powerful Typhoon Manghut approached the Philippines, it became clear that about 5 million people live in the risk zone. Hurricane tore trees with roots, destroyed buildings and turned boats. The wind speed reached 170 km / h. The height of the waves reached six meters.

Hundreds of domestic and international flights were canceled. Serious damage was received to the airport in the north-east of Tugearao, located on the island of Loison. In advance, the authorities managed to evacuate 800,000 people from the disaster zone. However, it was not possible to avoid the victims. Any typhoon is accompanied by strong showers, which means that in landscapes with complex relief landslides are inevitable. In the Philippines, the landslide descended on the barracks, where the miners lived. 43 people were blocked in the tunnel. Rescuers removed 30 bodies, the fate of the rest is still unknown. In total, the Philippines killed more than 60 people, 47 people were seriously injured. And since there are about 50 missing people, the death toll may increase. More than four million people were left without light.

Strongly hurt and Hong Kong. The wind squeezed out the windows in the windows, tore the trees from the root, broke the power poles, turned the cars over, swung the multi-storey buildings.

Was preparing to receive a typhoon, which was assigned to the 5th category, and mainland China. This is the most powerful typhoon in the last 70 years. The wind at a speed of 70 m / s poured tower cranes and pulled trees, knocked out windows. Only in the province of Guangdong, 2.5 million people were evacuated, trains were canceled, schools were closed. Residents are advised not to leave the house. Camcorder in Guangdong filmed the story: a hurricane tore from a pedestal in the street an ATM. From the destroyed ATM all over the street bills were scattered, but there was nobody to collect them. The streets were full of rivers, in which flocks of fish swam, in some places the houses were flooded under the roof, the water rose 3.5 meters. Rescuers on boats save people from attics.

From Manghut suffered and popular with the Russians Hainan. There, in advance, the entry into the sea of ??ships was prohibited, the flights, the movement of trains, the level of water in reservoirs. With the advent of the typhoon streets turned rivers. But even the measures taken prevented victims. While it is known about the four dead.

For several days on the eastern coast of the United States, the fifth, highest category of the hurricane of Florence. In the risk zone were about one and a half million people, but only 20 thousand agreed to leave their homes during the evacuation. Gusts of wind exceeded 200 km / h, the first floors of the houses went under the water. And there people died - a woman with a child crushed a tree in the house, a man was killed by electric shock while trying to turn on an extension cord, another man was blown away by the wind when he went out to check dogs.

It is now known that the number of victims has exceeded three dozen people. Ocean waves flood the lowlands. From a motel in Jacksonville, located in such a place, it was necessary to quickly evacuate 60 people.

Now the wind strength does not exceed 11 m / s, but the water level rises and the flooding continues. Thousands of roads have become impassable, schools in North and South Carolina, Maryland and Virginia are closed. About a million people are left without light.