Typhoon Bavi Makes Landfall in China After Evacuating Nearly 2 Million

Nearly 2 million people evacuated across eastern China; 17 deaths reported in Philippines from enhanced monsoon rains; 113 injured in Taiwan from falls and flying objects.

Typhoon Bavi, carrying moisture across a swath of ocean as wide as France, made landfall along China's eastern coast near Taizhou on Saturday night, prompting one of the largest mass evacuations in recent memory — nearly two million people moved to safety before the winds arrived. The storm had already left its mark across the western Pacific, touching Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines, where seventeen lives were lost to monsoon rains it had intensified. Though its winds are weakening as it moves inland, Bavi reminds us that nature's most dangerous gifts are often not the ones we can see, but

Typhoon Bavi Makes Landfall in China After Evacuating Nearly 2 Million

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