(Eagle News) — This was the effect of typhoon Yutu in Saipan, the largest island of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Eagle Broadcasting Corporation’s Eagle News Service correspondent in Saipan, Liezel Cristobal, interviews some of the Saipan residents coping in the aftermath of the supertyphoon.
Yutu had destroyed houses in the island with its powerful winds.
When it hit the Northern Marianas, it had winds of up to 178 miles per hour, making it the strongest storm on record to hit a U.S. territory.
It flattened neighborhoods in the islands of Tinian and Saipan and displaced hundreds of residents.
It also damaged the buildings and various infrastructure in the region, causing massive power and water outages.
After it hit the islands, Yutu moved to the Philippines where it severely affected Northern Luzon, leaving a swath of destruction in its path.
Yutu, named Rosita when it entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), also caused numerous landslides, including the deadly mudslide in Natonin town in Mountain province where mud and rocks buried the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) second district engineering office where some 30 people had been taking refuge from the storm.
