Tropical Storm Tembin Kills more than 200 people in the Philippines

[Meatpie]

A tropical storm in the Philippines has triggered mudslides and floods killing more than 200 people with dozens of others missing, police and disaster officials said on Saturday.

The weather bureau said the storm had gathered strength over the Sulu Sea and was packing winds of up 80 kph (50 mph) and moving west at 20 kph.

Last week, 46 people were killed in the central Philippines when a typhoon hit. Last Christmas a powerful typhoon hit the densely populated area around Manila and in 2013 super typhoon Haiyan killed nearly 8,000 people and left 200,000 families homeless.

 

[alexonedeath]

Tropical storm Tembin's 50mph winds weren't of themselves terribly devastating, not when compared to 200mph hurricane winds, but nonetheless they managed to set off related disasters that killed more people than some hurricanes do. I hate weather, unless it's hot and sunny.