Dec 05 2012, 01:11 PM
Need to know:
More than 200 people are feared deadin the Philippines after a powerful typhoon.
An average of 20 storms batter the Philippines each year, but, with gusts of up to 93 mph, Typhoon Bopha is the biggest of 2012. The death toll has more than doubled since Bopha first made landfall in the south of the country yesterday, and hundreds more are still missing amid landslides and flash floods.
The storm is now weakening and moving west, out into the South China Sea. But it leaves behind a trail of lasting destruction: thousands of people are displaced, power and communication lines are down, roads and bridges are in ruins, and millions of dollars' worth of crops have been destroyed.
Typhoon Bopha also landfalls three times moving West-Northwest at 24 kph and killing nearly 900 peoples.
Inside Typhoon Bopha:
![[Image: 710946main_typhoon_bopha_1600_946-710.jpg]](http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/710946main_typhoon_bopha_1600_946-710.jpg)
Source:http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/chatter/chatter-typhoon-bopha-kills-hundreds-the-philippines
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/71094...46-710.jpg
More than 200 people are feared deadin the Philippines after a powerful typhoon.
An average of 20 storms batter the Philippines each year, but, with gusts of up to 93 mph, Typhoon Bopha is the biggest of 2012. The death toll has more than doubled since Bopha first made landfall in the south of the country yesterday, and hundreds more are still missing amid landslides and flash floods.
The storm is now weakening and moving west, out into the South China Sea. But it leaves behind a trail of lasting destruction: thousands of people are displaced, power and communication lines are down, roads and bridges are in ruins, and millions of dollars' worth of crops have been destroyed.
Typhoon Bopha also landfalls three times moving West-Northwest at 24 kph and killing nearly 900 peoples.
Inside Typhoon Bopha:
Source:http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/chatter/chatter-typhoon-bopha-kills-hundreds-the-philippines
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/71094...46-710.jpg