Extreme Typhoon Ruby / Hagupit sky before and destruction after
Typhoon Hagupit (known locally as Ruby) made its first landfall and continues to lash the central Philippines as a still formidable typhoon with potentially life-threatening winds, storm surge and flash floods.
Hagupit (Ruby) made landfall late Saturday night, local time (the Philippines are 13 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern standard time) in eastern Samar, according to PAGASA, the Philippine national weather agency.
A 78 mph peak sustained wind was clocked at Guiuan, at the southern tip of eastern Samar Saturday night. Bands of heavy rain lashed Samar and Leyte, including Tacloban City Saturday night.
Over 716,600 were evacuated ahead of the typhoon as of early Saturday evening, local time, according to the Philippines National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
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