Deadly Typhoon Mangkhut shakes Hong Kong buildings as it moves into China
Typhoon Mangkhut made landfall Sunday in mainland China, but not before deadly 100-plus mph winds blew through the Philippines and Hong Kong.
In the Philippines, the New York Times reports more than 60 were killed in landslides and flooding, while millions are affected with homes and communities destroyed. Now the storm is in China, where two were already killed in Guangdong province.
The Hong Kong Observatory showed the path of the storm and how it's expected to weaken as it makes its way inland. Authorities there raised the storm warning signal to T10 earlier, the highest possible level.
Videos and images coming in from Hong Kong and nearby Shenzhen, China, show how destructive the storm is. On social media posts, downed cranes, fallen trees, swaying buildings, and powerful winds were just some of the severe weather posts coming in.
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The Hong Kong Free Press showed impressive video on its Facebook page of blown out windows and flooding.
Also making the rounds online are videos of scaffolding and cranes falling off buildings and spinning wildly in the wind.
Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
