Manila a direct hit from Typhoon Xangsane

Manila and parts of Luzon experienced the strongest typhoon in eleven years yesterday. Typhoon Xangsane (local name: Milenyo) had sustained winds of 130 kph (that's about 82 mph-Cat. 1 hurricane) and gusts of 160 kph (100 mph-Cat. 2 hurricane). I called my Mom and she said it was really strong. One steel sliding door with glass panels was blown off from their house in Quezon City. They experienced 24 hours of power outage (very short compared to what we experienced in Florida last year due to a Cat. 1 hurricane and the US is not even a third world country).

The typhoon's fury caused a lot of destruction as you can imagine with many billboards toppling over, lives were lost, thousands of trees being uprooted, floods, etc.

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