Before dawn on a Sunday in late July, Typhoon Noul came ashore along China's southern coast with the force of a system that had crossed an entire ocean to arrive. For 340,000 people in Guangdong Province, the storm was not a weather event but a displacement — a sudden unmooring from home, routine, and safety. It was the third such storm to strike China in a single month, a frequency that speaks to something larger than any individual tempest, arriving in one of the most densely inhabited coastlines on earth and reminding the region, as typhoons always do, that human settlement and natural powe
Typhoon Noul Batters Southern China: 340,000 Evacuated as Viral Videos Show Devastating Winds
340,000 people evacuated from Guangdong province; viral videos show residents blown by high-speed winds, with infrastructure collapse and property damage reported.