The content originally appeared on: CNN The storm rapidly intensified on Thursday morning and was upgraded from a typhoon to a super typhoon. By the time it made landfall on Siargao Island on the central east coast, it had reached sustained winds of 260 kilometers per hour (160 miles per hour) with gusts over 300 kilometers per hour (185 miles per hour) - equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic. Tens of thousands of people have already evacuated […]
