Super Typhoon Man-yi fells power lines, causes tidal surges in Philippines

The large wind is expected to make 2nd landfall successful nan bluish Aurora state arsenic tens of thousands are displaced.

Super Typhoon Man-yi has uprooted trees, bringing down powerfulness lines and triggering tidal surges arsenic it threatens to make its 2nd landfall connected nan northeastern Philippine seashore – the sixth awesome storm to deed nan state successful little than a month.

As of 2pm (06:00 GMT) connected Sunday, Man-yi was approaching nan bluish state of Aurora pinch maximum sustained winds of up to 185km/h (115mph), according to nan nationalist upwind agency PAGASA. Its gustiness somewhat eased from 255km/h (158mph) to 230km/h (143mph).

Images posted connected societal media by various Philippine TV outlets connected Sunday showed ample waves lashing nan seashore of Aurora amid howling winds and dense rain. PAGASA besides continued to pass of a “potentially vulnerable and life-threatening” business arsenic Man-yi moves person to land.

Man-yi is nan 16th typhoon to deed nan Philippines successful 2024.

On Saturday night, it slammed into nan eastbound land state of Catanduanes successful cardinal Philippines pinch sustained winds of up to 195km/h (125mph).

As of Sunday afternoon, location were nary contiguous reports of casualties from nan typhoon, but it near Catanduanes pinch nary powerfulness aft it knocked down trees and energy posts.

“The rainfall was minimal, but nan upwind was very beardown and had this eerie howling sound,” Roberto Monterola, a disaster-mitigation serviceman successful Catanduanes, told The Associated Press news agency.

“Along a main boulevard here, nan tidal surges went up to much than 7 metres (23 feet) adjacent nan seaside houses. It looked really scary.”

Nearly half of nan land province’s 80,000 group were sheltering successful removal centres successful beforehand of Man-yi’s landfall.

In nan bluish Philippines, much than 750,000 group took refuge successful emergency shelters, including churches and a shopping mall, owed to Man-yi and 2 erstwhile storms, according to civilian defence charismatic Cesar Idio.

The uncommon number of back-to-back storms and typhoons that lashed Luzon successful conscionable 3 weeks killed much than 160 people, affected 9 cardinal and caused specified extended harm to residential communities, infrastructure and farmlands that nan Philippines whitethorn person to import much rice, a staple nutrient for astir Filipinos.

In an emergency gathering arsenic Man-yi approached, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr asked his furniture and provincial officials to brace for “the worst-case scenario”.

Gopal Mukherjee, nan Red Cross Philippines programme coordinator, told Al Jazeera that thousands of volunteers were activated crossed nan state earlier nan storm.

“They person been trying to assistance their neighbours and their communities, arsenic good arsenic nan section government,” he said. “We are besides trying to supply support successful nan removal centres successful position of non-food items, for illustration mats, blankets and room utensils.”

Before Man-yi’s landfall, astatine slightest 26 home airports and 2 world 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 nan Civil Aviation Authority of nan Philippines and nan Philippine Coast Guard. On average, nan Philippines is battered by about 20 typhoons and storms each year.

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