In Pictures, Typhoon Morakot

Over the past several days, the storm has passed over the Philippines, Taiwan and Mainland China, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage due to high winds, flooding and mudslides. Check out how bad taiwan, china are  effected.

Southeast China evacuated nearly 1 million people ahead of the storm, after Morakot broke many records in Taiwan, dumping a total of 2.5 meters (100 inches) of rain on the island. At least 40 people are known to have died so far, but hundreds remain missing – many from one village in Taiwan, reportedly engulfed by a mudslide during the storm.

Source : Boston

[ Image Source ]

A woman watches waves triggered by Typhoon Morakot batter the shore in Wenling, Zhejiang Province August 7, 2009. (REUTERS/China Daily)

A fisherman paddles his canoe past a fishing vessel during sunrise as the weather clears after continued rain brought by Typhoon Morakot stopped in the central Philippine island of Cebu August 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Victor Kintanar)

Two villagers walk in a flooded village in Cangnan county, eastern China Sunday Aug. 9, 2009. (AP Photo)

Flood waters brought by Typhoon Morakot submerge a house in Chiatung, Pingtung county, in southern Taiwan, on August 9, 2009. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)

Residents gather to remove a fallen tree blocking a road in Changle, in southeast China’s Fujian province on August 8, 2009 as Typhoon Morakot hits mainland China. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images

An elderly man is carried from a helicopter to a high school in Chishan, in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung county on August 10, 2009 after being airlifted from the southern village of Shiao Lin. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

Water flows past a severely eroded embankment near a damaged bridge that previously linked Pingtung and Kaohsiung, in southern Taiwan on August 9, 2009. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)

A man stands on a roof as he awaits rescue in heavy flooding in Taimali, south-eastern Taiwan’s Taitung county on August 8, 2009 during Typhoon Morakot. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

A hotel building leans before falling in a heavily flooded river after Typhoon Morakot hit Taitung county, Taiwan, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. The six-story hotel collapsed and plunged into the river Sunday morning after floodwaters eroded its base – all 300 people in the hotel had been evacuated and uninjured, officials said. (AP Photo / AP Photo/ETTV Television)

News around the world