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

The tempest is expected to marque 2nd landfall successful the 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 marque its 2nd landfall connected the northeastern Philippine seashore – the sixth large storm to deed the state successful little than a month.

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

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

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

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

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

“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 quality agency.

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

Nearly fractional of the land province’s 80,000 radical were sheltering successful evacuation centres successful beforehand of Man-yi’s landfall.

In the bluish Philippines, much than 750,000 radical took refuge successful exigency shelters, including churches and a buying mall, owed to Man-yi and 2 erstwhile storms, according to civilian defence authoritative Cesar Idio.

The uncommon fig 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 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 furniture and provincial officials to brace for “the worst-case scenario”.

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

“They person been trying to assistance their neighbours and their communities, arsenic good arsenic the section government,” helium said. “We are besides trying to supply enactment successful the evacuation centres successful presumption of non-food items, similar mats, blankets and room utensils.”

Before Man-yi’s landfall, astatine 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 Philippines and the Philippine Coast Guard. On average, the Philippines is battered by about 20 typhoons and storms each year.

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