{"id":27490,"date":"2022-09-25T05:22:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27490"},"modified":"2022-09-25T05:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T05:22:27","slug":"typhoon-noru-evacuations-in-philippines-as-severe-storm-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27490","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Noru: Evacuations in Philippines as severe storm nears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Authorities in the Philippines have started evacuating people from coastal areas as a major typhoon approaches.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Category 3 Typhoon Noru is travelling at speeds of 195 km\/h (120 mph) as it heads towards Luzon, the country&#8217;s main island, after what forecasters called an &#8220;explosive intensification&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The storm could cause landslides, flash flooding and dangerous storm surges, including in the capital, Manila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local governments have been advised to evacuate people in high-risk areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We ask residents living in danger zones to adhere to calls for evacuation whenever necessary,&#8221; said national police chief Gen Rodolfo Azurin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The storm&#8217;s speed increased by 90 km\/h in 24 hours, and weather forecaster Robb Gile told AFP that its increased speed as it headed towards land was &#8220;unprecedented&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Quezon Province, east of Manila, fishermen have been prevented from heading to sea, and there were reports of some areas being without power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines, an archipelago of more than 7,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is highly vulnerable to storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An estimated 400 people died when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-59714658\">Typhoon Rai hit<\/a> the country in December 2021, with rescue teams describing scenes of &#8220;complete carnage&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Authorities in the Philippines have started evacuating people from coastal areas as a major typhoon approaches. Category 3 Typhoon Noru is travelling at speeds of 195 km\/h (120 mph) as it heads towards Luzon, the country&#8217;s main island, after what forecasters called an &#8220;explosive intensification&#8221;. The storm could cause landslides, flash flooding and dangerous storm surges, including in the capital, Manila. Local governments have been advised to evacuate people in high-risk areas. &#8220;We ask residents living in danger zones to adhere to calls for evacuation whenever necessary,&#8221; said national police chief Gen Rodolfo Azurin. The storm&#8217;s speed increased&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27492,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27490\/revisions\/27492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}