Streets turned into rivers as Typhoon Gaemi sweeps through the Philippines

In Rizal province’s Cainta, east of the capital, floodwaters were still around waist-level on Thursday, according to local councilor Ben Ramirez Narag. “No one is prepared for this, even though we anticipated the typhoon, we could not have predicted the scale of rainfall,” he said. His team was delivering supplies to evacuation centers and assessing damage to infrastructure, he added. The southwest monsoon, supercharged by the typhoon, is still causing misery and destruction in the Philippines even after Gaemi moved north and made landfall in Taiwan early Thursday as the equivalent of a Category 3 major hurricane in the Atlantic. Heavy rainfall, gusty winds and a dangerous storm surge killed at least two people and injured nearly 300 others in Taiwan’s northeast, according to the Central Emergency Operations Center.