Sentence examples for before the typhoon from inspiring English sources
Days before the typhoon struck, there were mass evacuations from vulnerable areas.
"I spoke to my mother just a few hours before the typhoon made landfall in my city, Tacloban," said taxi driver Sherwin Martinata, 32, in the capital, Manila.
Some 60% of small-scale coconut farmers lived in poverty before the typhoon hit and are now surviving on food aid or cash support.
Disaster-response officials evacuated more than 115,000 people in Manila and the nearby provinces that were in Mirinae's path before the typhoon struck.
Critics of the government say that, among many other things, Mr. Ma and other leaders should have evacuated residents in vulnerable areas before the typhoon hit and accepted foreign aid much earlier.
Before the typhoon, Taiwan and other Asian manufacturing nations were clearing a backlog of shipments that piled up last week when the terrorist attacks prompted the United States to ground all commercial flights.
In fact, Figure 2 shows that the water on the right-hand side of the tracks of some of the typhoons was much colder than the water on the left-hand side before the typhoons passed, which is confirmed by Figures 6 and 7.
Therefore, we compared the horizontal simulated sea surface temperature distributions (Figure 10f,g,h,i,j) and the differences between the simulations using the uncoupled and coupled models (Figure 11) with those for the TRMM/TMI sea surface temperatures (Figure 3e,f,g,h), and the differences between before and after the typhoon had passed (Figure 3i,j,k,l).
(i to l) Differences in the TRMM/TMI sea surface temperature between before and after the passage of the typhoon (before subtracted from after).
The magnitude of the salinity increase was found to be related to the pre-existing salinity profile, i.e., the salinity was higher below the seasonal thermocline than near the surface before the passage of the typhoon.
All fishermen in the area were urged to return to port before the onset of the typhoon.
