Nearly 1.7 million evacuated but relief as storm leaves area that damage and lives lost less than super-typhoon Haiyan
The remains of typhoon Hagupit swept out of the Philippines after killing at least 27 people and damaging remote coastal communities, but there was relief it spared the capital and other areas from disaster.
Hagupit struck the far eastern island of Samar on Saturday with winds of 210km/h (130mph), making it the most powerful storm to hit the Philippines this year and threatening widespread destruction.
But the typhoon steadily weakened as it travelled west across the central Philippines, passing close to the capital of Manila on Monday night with only a fraction of the forecast torrential rain.
Hagupit first hit land as a category 3 typhoon on Saturday. It was downgraded from a tropical storm to a tropical depression on Tuesday.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/09/philippines-storm-hagupit-kills-27
Hagupit struck the far eastern island of Samar on Saturday with winds of 210km/h (130mph), making it the most powerful storm to hit the Philippines this year and threatening widespread destruction.
But the typhoon steadily weakened as it travelled west across the central Philippines, passing close to the capital of Manila on Monday night with only a fraction of the forecast torrential rain.
Hagupit first hit land as a category 3 typhoon on Saturday. It was downgraded from a tropical storm to a tropical depression on Tuesday.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/09/philippines-storm-hagupit-kills-27
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