In the early hours of a Sunday morning, Typhoon Noul made landfall along China's southern coast, carrying winds of 145 kilometers per hour and the full weight of nature's indifference to human arrangement. More than 340,000 people were moved from their homes in Guangdong province before the storm arrived — a testament to both the storm's severity and the hard-won institutional memory of a region that has learned, through repetition, how to absorb such blows. Noul is the third major typhoon to strike the area in a single month, a pattern that asks quiet but serious questions about the rhythms o
Typhoon Noul batters southern China, displaces 340,000 in Guangdong
Over 340,000 people evacuated to safety in Guangdong; one building scaffolding collapse reported with no initial injuries.