Super Typhoon Rai slams into the Philippines, forcing tens of thousands to flee as flooding and landslides expected
The storm intensified rapidly as it approached the coast, strengthening from a Category 1 to a Category 5 storm in just 24 hours. By the time it made landfall on Siargao Island, a popular tourist and surfing destination on the central east coast, the storm had reached sustained winds of 260 kilometers per hour with gusts over 300 kilometers per hour .
"We are concerned that this storm is taking the same path as the typhoon in 2011, and the other in 2013," said Karen Janes Ungar, the country representative for the humanitarian organization Catholic Relief Services Philippines.Evacuees arrive at an evacuation site in Dapa town, Surigao, Philippines on December 16."However, we have learned a lot from both of those previous disasters, and in a lot of disaster preparedness ... for this emergency.
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