It is in charge of a Jesuit priest, who predicts the approach of typhoons and puts up storm signals, in this way preventing great loss of life.
Catbalogan is a town which has been visited by very severe typhoons and terrible plagues, but by very few people.
Typhoons seldom occur earlier than this month or later than the end of September.
In violent typhoons it is found necessary to secure them with ropes, passed over the roofs, and fastened to strong posts.
Well was it that theTyphoons did not visit them then.
Long seasoned and weather-stained in the typhoons and calms of all four oceans, her old hull's complexion was darkened like a French grenadier's, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia.
The hurricanes of the West Indies and Mauritius, and the typhoons of the Eastern seas, are thus caused.
It is outside the zone of the equable trade-winds, and in a region a few degrees on each side of the tropics, that destructive hurricanes and typhoons prevail.
The bay of Manila is safe, excepting during the change of the monsoons, when it is subject to the typhoons of the China Seas, within whose range it lies.
The heaviest rains fall from October to January, and in October typhoons sometimes occur.
They resist wind storms admirably, and even typhoons seldom uproot them, but violent gales injure the leaves and blow down the fruits, thus temporarily checking production.
Old Manila, lying just south of the river, is one of the best remaining examples of a walled town, and it has many buildings which have withstood typhoons and earthquakes for centuries.
Agpad, of Tinglayan, has twice dived into rivers swollen by typhoons and rescued Americans who had sunk for the last time beneath the rushing, muddy waters, while their fellow-countrymen stood by paralyzed with fear.
Heavy repair work which may be necessary after great typhoons or floods must be specially provided for.
Manila had no protected anchorage, and during the season of southwest monsoons and typhoons vessels were sometimes compelled to lie in the harbour for weeks before they could unload, a fact which gave the port a deservedly bad name.
During three months of the year the dreaded typhoons are expected, and once or twice each year great damage is done by them.
In this region the danger from typhoons is inconsiderable, and the trees flourish exceedingly.
In Palawan, where the typhoons do not ravage, I have seen cacao trees 30 feet high, with an abundant crop.
The exemption from typhoons enjoyed by this region is most important as regards the cultivation of the aborescent species, and the cocoa-nut palm would prove highly remunerative on land not suited for other crops.
The force of the monsoon is much spent when it arrives on the coast of Paragua, and the typhoons only touch the northern extremity of the island.
Sudden gales, whirlwinds, and typhoons are not uncommon in the Mediterranean; albeit soft winds and calm seas alternate with them.
As to this here boat, if a hurricane anything at all like them Chinee typhoons gets hold of her, why, we shall just be blowed clean away out o' water and up among the clouds!
Similar storms are thetyphoons and baguios of the East Indian and China Seas.
The word cyclone was first used by Piddington in 1843 in describing the flow of the air in the typhoons of the East Indian Seas.
Typhoons have various ways of asserting themselves, but there is one predominating form of which this particular typhoon happens to be an example.
We had several more that year, and I began to feel that typhoons were terribly exaggerated in books.
We accustomed ourselves at last to typhoons and earthquakes, and, on the whole, decided that they were less fearful than tornadoes at home.
Being the god of the winds, storms were ascribed to his fury, and the typhoons and tempests which broke out at times with destructive violence over the seas and countries were called by his name.
It was carried out to sea by the Attibunico, one of the four rivers which divide the island into equal parts, during an inundation accompanied by horrible typhoons which the islanders call hurricanes.
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