3 deaths, injuries reported as Typhoon Hagupit floods parts of the Philippines

Typhoon Hagupit continued battering the Philippines on Sunday, making a lumbering trek from Samar island in the east, across Mindoro island, toward the flood-prone capital city of Manila. The Philippines weather agency, known as PAGASA, has upgraded the warning category in Manila from one to two, forecasting tropical-storm force winds on Monday, local time

Fortunately, so far, the storm has been nothing like Super Typhoon Haiyan, which killed at least 6,000 when it hit southern Samar and northern Leyte islands last November. That storm had sustained winds of 190 miles per hour when it struck, and the wind and atmospheric pressure-driven storm surge caused most of the deaths. At the time of this writing, Typhoon Hagupit has left three people dead Read more...

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