Typhoon Megi

With winds gusting up to 160 miles per hour, Typhoon Megi hit the Philippines on Oct. 18, killing 28 people, destroying 31,000 thousand homes in the northeast region of the island Luzon and damaging 100,000 more.

As Megi passed through Taiwan on Oct. 20-22, its torrential rains caused flooding and landslides that left 14 dead and 23 missing. Over 47 inches of rain fell in the northeast regions.

Weakened, on Oct. 23 the storm made landfall in southeast China, an already drenched region. More than 300,000 people were evacuated from high-flood-risk areas.