By Andy Brown With another typhoon threatening to bring another major disaster, families in the Philippines braced themselves for the worst.
Typhoon Wipha, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Goring, was the strongest typhoon to threaten the Chinese coastline since Typhoon Saomai in August 2006.
Typhoon Babe, also known as the Okinoerabu Typhoon, was regarded as "the worst typhoon to threaten Japan in 18 years".
In Japan, Kirogi became the first typhoon to threaten the city of Tokyo since a storm in the 1989 Pacific typhoon season, prompting hundreds of residents to evacuate.
Political support for the business comes from across the ideological spectrum: when the European Fighter Aircraft collaboration between Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy, now known as the Typhoon, was threatened with cancellation in the 90s, even the Socialist Workers party protested ("No Closures. No job losses. Stuff the Tories").
The typhoon briefly threatened Wake Island.
Regarded as the "fiercest typhoon to threaten Hong Kong in five years," the Hong Kong Observatory began issuing storm signals by July 16 to warn residents of the approaching storm.
Even then, when Typhoon Hagupit threatened the same swathe of territory as Haiyan some months ago, the Philippines also showed that it could rise to the occasion by undertaking pre-emptive evacuations, thus saving many lives.
Only a week after Typhoon Chataan struck Guam and left $60 million in damage, Typhoon Halong also threatened the island, although it veered to the south in the day before it would have struck.
BEIJING — A powerful typhoon that had threatened Hong Kong brushed past the southern Chinese city on Sunday night and crashed into Guangdong Province.
