{"id":37855,"date":"2018-09-16T10:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T15:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37855"},"modified":"2018-09-16T10:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T15:34:01","slug":"king-of-storms-devastates-hong-kong-makes-landfall-in-china-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37855","title":{"rendered":"“KING OF STORMS”\u00a0Devastates Hong Kong, Makes Landfall in China Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“KING OF STORMS”\u00a0Devastates Hong Kong, Makes Landfall in China Sunday<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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On Friday, two massive storms — Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut — made devastating landfall on opposite ends the world, but are leaving behind destruction in different ways. For Florence, it was mainly a rain event in the Carolinas. For Mangkhut, it was the wind that devastated<\/a> the Philippines on Friday\/Saturday, and now wreaking havoc in Hong Kong and southern China on Sunday\u00a0(scroll down for videos<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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“Storms forming in the western Pacific tend to hit with much higher winds and the people who live in their path are often poorer and more vulnerable,” said Gabriel Vecchi, a Princeton University hurricane and climate scientist.<\/p>\n

Mangkhut made landfall Friday on the northeastern part of Luzon island in the Philippines with sustained winds of 165 mph. Florence had been degraded to a Category 1 storm with 90 mph winds as it approached North Carolina\u2019s coast.<\/p>\n

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One day after landfall, Mangkhut was over the open water \u2014 weakened but headed across the South China Sea toward China. Florence, meanwhile, unleashed record-setting rain on parts of the North Carolina coastline. Many regions in southeastern North Carolina have seen 15 to 30 inches of rain.<\/p>\n

Weather experts say Mangkhut may end up being the deadlier storm.<\/p>\n

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Hong Kong and southern China braced for impact on early Sunday as damaging winds and heavy rain from Mangkhut collided with the densely populated coast, a day after officials confirmed 49 people dead on Luzon island.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera<\/a> said approximately half a million people had been evacuated from seven major cities in Guangdong province of China, and the Hong Kong Observatory, a local newspaper, warned people to stay away from the coastline as massive waves and storm surges wiped out structures.<\/p>\n

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