Once again, the western Pacific has reminded southern China of its ancient vulnerability to the sea's fury — Typhoon Noul, the strongest to make landfall in China this year, arrived before dawn on Sunday near Huizhou, Guangdong, carrying 110 kph winds and heavy rain that would linger through the weekend. More than 715,000 people were moved from their homes before the storm arrived, a mobilization that speaks both to the scale of the threat and to the hard-won institutional memory of a region that has learned, storm by storm, how to absorb nature's recurring demands. The question that lingers a
Typhoon Noul batters southern China with 700,000+ evacuated
Over 715,000 people evacuated for safety; at least 9 people injured in Hong Kong; building infrastructure damaged including scaffolding collapse.