A powerful tropical cyclone brought flooding rainfall to the Philippines and Taiwan over the weekend. AccuWeather forecasters say some areas recorded staggering rainfall amounts in excess of several feet as Nesat, which was classified as a severe tropical storm at the time, tracked from the Philippine Sea into the South China Sea.
Raging floodwaters as a result of torrential rainfall turned roadways into rivers, caused damage to homes and forced hundreds of evacuations. Some of the heaviest rainfall targeted the northernmost portions of Luzon, the largest and most populated island of the Philippine archipelago, the grouping of small islands to the north of Luzon as well as eastern and northern areas of Taiwan.
