Typhoon Hagupit, one of the worst of the season, has just hit Vietnam killing 32 people so far. The damage is still indeterminable, of the storm that has already struck China and the Phillipines. Police and soldiers were sent into the most vulnerable areas of North Vietnam to evacuate as many as possible. Hagupit, which means "lashing" in Filipino, killed at least eight people in the Philippines and at least 17 in China where it triggered a huge storm tide. The Red River near the capital Hanoi was expected to reach dangerously high levels on Sunday (today), rising to 8.6 metres (28 ft).
I had a chance to visit Hanoi and northern Vietnam in June of this year and I remember people talking about this typhoon season was supposed to be as bad as any season in the past years. When I was in Japan we got some of the weaker ends of the typhoons in July.
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