Sentence examples for typhoon strikes from inspiring English sources

Macabocsit has a community centre she can flee to when a typhoon strikes, but others aren't so lucky.

Less than a third of citizens have somewhere to go if a typhoon strikes – with private housing making up the bulk of evacuation centres.

A later sequence, about the flexible joints that prevent the airport roof taking off for Thailand when a typhoon strikes, gave him the excuse to destroy a car, while the explanation of the Doppler effect involved a radio-controlled plane buzzing the film crew in a way that will surely have required an extra sheet on the risk-assessment form.

It's topped off with a giant pendulum that swings in the opposite direction to the wind when a typhoon strikes.

A typhoon strikes in Southeast Asia, and suddenly the world cannot get the latex gloves essential for surgery.

Within Guangdong in southern China, during the past thousand years, the most active decades for typhoon strikes were the 1660s and 1670s.

In 2002 another typhoon struck Guam; it caused devastation across the island and left thousands homeless.

Days before the typhoon struck, there were mass evacuations from vulnerable areas.

In the giddy days before the Asian financial typhoon struck in 1997, the rupiah stood at about 2,400.

The family's summerhouse in Mokashan and how they had to tie the roof down when a typhoon struck.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A typhoon struck Taiwan early Monday, closing schools and businesses and grounding domestic and international air traffic.