PEÑABLANCA, Philippines – Hungry typhoon survivors huddled in makeshift shelters and waited for aid on Friday, after losing nearly everything from one of the most powerful storms to hit the Southeast Asian archipelago. My mango trees were also toppled,” farmer Leonardo Longan, 66, told AFP in the town of Peñablanca, close to where Lawin made landfall. In San Pablo, another Cagayan Valley town about 20 kilometers south of Peñablanca, four families spent Thursday night on a roadside after Lawin flattened their homes. But Cagayan Valley, a mostly farming region, was not as badly affected as the Cordillera highlands, she said. Lawin hit Hong Kong and the southern Chinese mainland on Friday, after weakening into a typhoon with wind speeds of 145 kilometers an hour.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 21, 2016 08:26 UTC