In the early hours of a Sunday morning, Typhoon Noul arrived on China's southern coast with the full weight of the season's most powerful storm, touching land near Pinghai in Guangdong Province with winds that measured the year's highest. The storm's approach was known in advance, and the machinery of preparation moved accordingly — hundreds of thousands of people relocated, transport suspended, warnings issued. Yet nature does not negotiate, and nine were injured, trees fell by the hundreds, and the sky over Hong Kong turned violent before the storm moved on. Now Noul carries its diminished b
Typhoon Noul Batters Southern China After Landfall, Displacing 340,000
Nine people injured in Hong Kong; over 100 reports of fallen trees; 340,000+ people evacuated from affected areas.