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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts) Fri Sep 14, 2018, 01:56 PM Sep 2018

Ompong. Is the sound you make when you realize a category 5 justice storm is bearing down on you!

"In the Philippines, the storm is being called Typhoon Ompong. The country uses a different list of names from the more commonly used typhoon list maintained by the Japan Meteorological Agency."

I like the red arrow....

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Ompong. Is the sound you make when you realize a category 5 justice storm is bearing down on you! (Original Post) Fred Sanders Sep 2018 OP

"At least four times as intense as Hurricane Florence" Hortensis Sep 2018 #1

50 million folks potentially affected versus 3 million with puny Florence. Fred Sanders Sep 2018 #2

Wow! I read over 7000 died in the last super storm in 2013. Hortensis Sep 2018 #3

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

1. "At least four times as intense as Hurricane Florence"

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Fri Sep 14, 2018, 02:09 PM

Sep 2018

WaPo: The planet’s strongest storm in 2018, so far, is on a collision course with the Philippines. At least four times as intense as Hurricane Florence, Super Typhoon Mangkhut is expected to make landfall on the island of Luzon early Saturday, local time.

The typhoon, equivalent in strength to a Category 5 hurricane, contains sustained winds of more than 165 mph at its core, with gusts approaching 200 mph. Evacuations are ongoing in Cagayan, the northernmost province of Luzon.

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecasts Mangkhut to remain at Category 5 strength through landfall. ...

Hong Kong will be next in line. The city of 7 million is bracing for a storm of “extraordinary speed, scope and severity,” warned Security Minister John Lee Ka-chiu. The storm’s expansive cloud field stretches a whopping 1,000 miles.

Damage to crops and the food supply itself is expected to be severe.

Fred Sanders

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2. 50 million folks potentially affected versus 3 million with puny Florence.

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 02:10 PM

Sep 2018

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

3. Wow! I read over 7000 died in the last super storm in 2013.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 02:19 PM

Sep 2018

And of course their whole country keeps getting pounded, with enormous human and economic losses every time. You're right. What we're experiencing is nothing in comparison.

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