Typhoon Saomai Whiplash Labuan

Labuan and Sabah experienced strong winds this past few days.It was reported in a local newspaper that, hundreds of rooftops were blown off and trees came crashing down when strong winds - from the tail effects of Typhoon Saomoi - wreaked havoc in Sabah's west coast.

Blowing at speeds of up to 60km/hr, the strong winds hit coastal areas between Labuan island and northern Kudat peninsula at around 7pm on Tuesday. However, no causalities were reported.

Typhoon Saomai

Three different typhoons were spinning over the western Pacific Ocean on August 7, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image.

The strongest of the three, Typhoon Saomai, formed in the western Pacific on August 4, 2006, as a tropical depression. Within a day, it had become organized enough to be classified as a tropical storm. While Saomai was strengthening into a storm, another tropical depression formed a few hundred kilometers to the north, and by August 6, it became tropical storm Maria. Typhoon Bopha formed just as Maria reached storm status and became a storm itself on August 7.

One my colleagues car almost crushed by a tree branch that fell off a tree.He parked his car under a shaddy area.Parking under a tree is good to cool off a car on sunny days but it will be very risky when strong winds are blowing.

He was lucky that the car was alright.He vowed to park away from the spot now on.Or else, it will be an expensive cost to repair the dents and replace new front windshield.