I survived Neoguri

Almost forgot... Saturday was kind of a dreary day anyway, but by evening a typhoon had made landfall in the Guangdong province! We were on our way home from dinner with Sharon after our presentation and I have never seen such hard rain. It was crazy! We were in a taxi on the way home and the streets were just flooding. It was raining so hard and so fast that the water just had no where to go. And it was so windy! So windy that it broke my umbrella actually!! There were people out trying to take cover in shops and under small street stands and with cardboard over their heads to keep them dry. People were all trying to get taxis or get on buses. They were all just rushing around trying to get out of the rain and wind!
But by the morning it had calmed down and the rain was moving on inland. When we were walked to the bus stop for church in the morning there were people out sweeping up leaves and trash from where they had been blown everywhere. They were also cleaning up a big tree limb that fell on the campus.


Here's a few articles I found online about it:




Typhoon kills 18 in China

Aug 20, 2007 04:30 AM
BEIJING– A typhoon that killed 18 people in China had weakened to a tropical storm as it headed inland, where mines were ordered to close and over a million people had sought safety.
Tropical Storm Sepat, which had made landfall as a typhoon in China yesterday bringing torrential rain and powerful winds, had also damaged houses, ruined crops and cut power supply lines in eastern and southern China, Xinhua news agency said.
Eleven people were killed in Zhejiang by a tornado that spun off the typhoon and wrecked houses. In Fujian province to the south, two people were killed and one was missing in a landslide.
In the southern province of Guangdong, floods spawned by the storm had killed at least five, with eight missing.
Earlier, the storm killed at least one in Taiwan and three in the Philippines.
Sepat was expected to hit Hubei Province in central China from today until Wednesday.





Typhoon Neoguri kills 3 in China
Published: April 21, 2008 at 12:52 AM

BEIJING, April 21 (UPI) -- Typhoon Neoguri, the first such storm to hit China this year, has killed at least three people in south Guangdong province, officials said.Two of the victims died in a mud flow in Shenzen City Sunday, and the third died in Zhuhai city after being struck by an aluminum sheet blown off a stadium roof by strong winds, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.The typhoon hit south China Saturday with heavy rains and strong winds.Shantou city was pounded by heavy rains for more than 10 hours Sunday.In Yangjiang city, where Neoguri landed, the storm affected about 274,000 people and flooded thousands of acres of farm land.




18 missing as Typhoon Neoguri hits Chinese island
GUANGZHOU, China - Tropical storm Neoguri brushed over China's southern Hainan island on Saturday, leaving 18 fishermen missing and stranding thousands of travelers, state-run media reported.Apr 20, 2008 - 9:55:18 AM