Breitbart.com reports: “Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in the Philippines on Tuesday, blasting through the heavily populated center of the country with driving rain and 120 mile per hour wind gusts.
President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., declared a ‘state of national calamity’ on Thursday as disaster officials reported 114 fatalities and 127 people unaccounted for.
Typhoon Kalmaegi, known locally as ‘Tino,’ proved to be the worst natural disaster in the Philippines this year, and it arrived hard on the heels of the second-worst disaster — a 6.9-magnitude earthquake on September 30 that killed at least 79 people. The Philippine islands were also struck by two powerful typhoons in September, one of them strong enough to be classified as a ‘super typhoon.’
The storm on Tuesday brought unexpected flash floods to areas that were still recovering from the earthquake. Civil defense officials said the majority of the confirmed fatalities were caused by flooding, with at least 71 such deaths counted on the central island of Cebu. Other deaths were caused by falling trees, downed power lines, and landslides…”
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