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MANILA, Philippines,

December 5, 2014


 Updated: December 5, 2014 11:06 IST 


Philippines braces for powerful, erratic typhoon Hagupit





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This image made available by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and captured by the Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument shows Typhoon Hagupit on Thursday, as it approaches the Philippines.






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 A wide swath of the Philippines, including the capital Manila, braced on Friday for a dangerously erratic and powerful typhoon approaching from the Pacific, about a year after the country was lashed by Typhoon Haiyan that left more than 7,300 people dead.Typhoon Hagupit Filipino for “smash” strengthened overnight with its sustained winds intensifying to 215 kilometres (134 miles) per hour and gusts of 250 kph (155 mph). The local weather agency PAGASA’s forecasts show the typhoon may hit Eastern Samar province late Saturday or early on Sunday.But a forecast by the U.S. military’s Joint Typhoon Warning Centre in Hawaii said Hagupit (pronounced HA’-goo-pit) may veer northward after making landfall and possibly threaten Manila, which has population of more than 12 million people.“We have alerted the people of Manila and we’re ready,” Mayor Joseph Estrada said, while acknowledging “these typhoons change direction all the time”.It is currently 450 kilometres (280 miles) from the country’s eastern coast in the Pacific Ocean and moving slowly.If the first forecast holds, Hagupit’s path will send it barrelling inland into central Philippines along the same route where Typhoon Haiyan levelled villages and left more than 7,300 dead and missing in November last year.Still, Hagupit’s erratic behaviour prompted the government to call an emergency meeting of mayors of metropolitan Manila to warn them to prepare. Manila is north of the path that Haiyan took.Given the country’s experience with Haiyan, which caught people unprepared to deal with its ferocity, authorities seemed better positioned this time to respond to the impending crisis.Officials in central Philippine regions, which were hammered by Haiyan, evacuated thousands of people to safer areas, including Tacloban city, where the new typhoon has triggered panic-buying in grocery stores and gas stations and brought back nightmares of last year’s deadly onslaught.The government put the military on full alert, workers opened evacuation centres and transported food packs, medicines and body bags to far-flung villages, which could be cut off by heavy rains.In Manila, President Benigno Aquino III on Thursday led an emergency meeting of disaster-response agencies and ordered steps to prevent panic-buying and hoarding of goods.The government decided to move the venue of a meeting next week of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which was to be attended by hundreds of diplomats from 21 member economies, from Albay province, which could be lashed by the typhoon, to the capital, Manila, which forecasters said on Thursday will likely be spared.

Keywords: Philippines, Typhoon Hugupit, Typhoon Haiyan


  

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