After
forming as a tropical depression over the Pacific Ocean about 1,000 km
east of the Philippines on August 2nd, Typhoon Morakot built in power
and moved quickly west. Over the past several days, the storm has
passed over the Philippines, Taiwan and Mainland China, causing
hundreds of millions of dollars in damage due to high winds, flooding
and mudslides. Southeast China evacuated nearly 1 million people ahead
of the storm, after Morakot broke many records in Taiwan, dumping a
total of 2.5 meters (100 inches) of rain on the island. At least 40
people are known to have died so far, but hundreds remain missing -
many from one village in Taiwan, reportedly engulfed by a mudslide
during the storm. (36 photos total)
A
woman watches waves triggered by Typhoon Morakot batter the shore in
Wenling, Zhejiang Province August 7, 2009. (REUTERS/China Daily)
A
fisherman paddles his canoe past a fishing vessel during sunrise as the
weather clears after continued rain brought by Typhoon Morakot stopped
in the central Philippine island of Cebu August 9, 2009.
(REUTERS/Victor Kintanar) #
Flood
waters brought by Typhoon Morakot submerge a house in Chiatung,
Pingtung county, in southern Taiwan, on August 9, 2009. (SAM
YEH/AFP/Getty Images) #
Residents
gather to remove a fallen tree blocking a road in Changle, in southeast
China's Fujian province on August 8, 2009 as Typhoon Morakot hits
mainland China. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images) #
An
elderly man is carried from a helicopter to a high school in Chishan,
in Taiwan's Kaohsiung county on August 10, 2009 after being airlifted
from the southern village of Shiao Lin. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images) #
Water
flows past a severely eroded embankment near a damaged bridge that
previously linked Pingtung and Kaohsiung, in southern Taiwan on August
9, 2009. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images) #
A
man stands on a roof as he awaits rescue in heavy flooding in Taimali,
south-eastern Taiwan's Taitung county on August 8, 2009 during Typhoon
Morakot. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images) #
A
hotel building leans before falling in a heavily flooded river after
Typhoon Morakot hit Taitung county, Taiwan, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. The
six-story hotel collapsed and plunged into the river Sunday morning
after floodwaters eroded its base - all 300 people in the hotel had
been evacuated and uninjured, officials said. (AP Photo / AP Photo/ETTV
Television) #
Paramilitary
policemen stand on a pile of sandbags at a section of Yangjia Stream of
Xiapu county in Ningde, Fujian province August 10, 2009.
(REUTERS/Stringer) #
A
resident pulls a box of groceries across a flooded street after Typhoon
Morakot hit parts of Zhejiang province in China on August 10, 2009.
(REUTERS/Lang Lang) #
A
resident pulls a makeshift raft to transport two girls across a flooded
street after Typhoon Morakot struck Cangnan county, in China's Zhejiang
province, August 10, 2009. (REUTERS/Lang Lang) #
A
woman, taking shelter from Typhoon Morakot, rests in a temporary
evacuation centre in Chiatung, in southern Taiwan's Pingtung county on
August 9, 2009. (PATRICK LIN/AFP/Getty Images) #
Rescuers
are seen before a Taoist temple inundated in floodwaters brought by
Typhoon Morakot in Chiatung, southern Taiwan, on August 9, 2009. (SAM
YEH/AFP/Getty Images) #
A
girl is carried out from mudslide caused by Typhoon Morakot in
Chiashien, Kaohsiung county, in southern Taiwan, on August 10, 2009.
(PATRICK LIN/AFP/Getty Images) #
A
Philippine Coastguard rescuer helps a colleague while crossing a
flooded area with strong current in Botolan town in northern
Philippines August 7, 2009. The town of Botolan was submerged in
floodwaters on Friday after a dike collapsed at the height of Typhoon
Morakot. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) #
Evacuees
sit on top of a military vehicle as rescuers search the flooded area
for people after rains brought by Typhoon Morakot inundated the area in
Chiatung, Pingtung county, in southern Taiwan, on August 9, 2009.
(PATRICK LIN/AFP/Getty Images) #
Residents
make their way across a flooded street on a makeshift raft after
Typhoon Morakot hit Cangnan county of Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China
on August 10, 2009. (REUTERS/Lang Lang) #
A
distraught woman waits for word of her missing father from Shiao Lin
village, which was covered in a landslide from Typhoon Morakot in
Kaohsiung county, southern Taiwan, at a rescue landing zone on Monday,
Aug. 10, 2009. (AP Photo) #
A
man carries a baby as a family is rescued from flooding brought by
Typhoon Morakot in Chiatung, Pingtung county, in southern Taiwan, on
August 9, 2009. (PATRICK LIN/AFP/Getty Images) #
A
man trapped by floods gestures at rescuers delivering food and drinking
water after Typhoon Morakot hit Pingtung county, southern Taiwan August
9, 2009. (REUTERS/Pichi Chuang) #
A
worker sits behind a pile of sandbags as pumps empty floodwater from a
workshop after Typhoon Morakot hit Fuzhou, Fujian province August 9,
2009. (REUTERS/Kong Nong) #
Local
residents try to catch fish at a flooded fish pond as Typhoon Morakot
approaches in Xiapu county of Ningde, Fujian province, China on August
9, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer) #
A
man walks on sandbags used to patch a damaged dike holding back a
rising river in a flooded village in Cangnan county, eastern China
Sunday Aug. 9, 2009. (AP Photo) #
Two
women hold each other in a local emergency room after being rescued by
helicopter from a village covered in a landslide from Typhoon Morakot
in Kaohsiung county, southern Taiwan, Monday. Aug. 10, 2009. (AP Photo)
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