Typhoon SAMBA making landfall in S.Korea

[Seoul_lasers]

Just thought I'd share with you that Typhoon SAMBA is making landfall in S.Korea as I speak.
It is expect to maintain category 1 strength by the time it strikes Seoul later this afternoon/evening. This could be one of the most powerful typhoons since Typhoon MEMI in 2003 which did an amazing amount of damage to Eastern S.Korea.

I will be posing pics and video of the storm when it starts striking Seoul!!

S. Korea on high alert as Typhoon Sanba nears
(AFP) – 7 hours ago
SEOUL — South Korea was Sunday bracing for the arrival of its third major typhoon in two months, with school classes cancelled, ferry routes closed and thousands of ships sheltering in port.
Typhoon Sanba -- packing gusts of up to 48 metres per second -- was moving northward at a speed of 16 miles per hour (26kmh) about 50 miles off the Japanese island of Okinawa Sunday morning, Seoul's weather service said.
The typhoon killed one person and injured four in southwestern Japan, according to the Kyodo news agency, which added that another person remains missing.
It also caused blackouts to 100,000 households, Kyodo said.
Sanba is expected to pass South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju Monday morning before pounding the peninsula in the evening, arriving more than 50 miles southeast of the capital before churning northwards, Seoul's weather service said.
Authorities have issued severe wind and heavy rain alerts for most of the southern coastal regions, warning of rainfall of up to 300 millimetres (11.8 inches) per hour in some regions.
About 4,800 ships in the southwestern port city of Yeosu have been taken out of the typhoon's path, while officials in the city and nearby areas have been put on high alert.
School authorities in Jeju have ordered all schools in the island closed on Monday.
The government may issue the same order on Tuesday for the southern regions of the peninsula, Yonhap news agency said, adding dozens of ferry routes to the island and along the southwestern coast have been suspended.
Powerful typhoons Bolaven and Tembin, which struck the peninsula late August, left more than 20 people dead in the South, damaging farmlands and hundreds of houses and causing power cuts that affected millions of homes.
North Korea's state media said Bolaven -- the strongest to hit the peninsula for almost a decade -- killed 48 people and left more than 21,000 homeless.

S. Korea on high alert as Typhoon Sanba nears - Channel NewsAsia

Video attached in this thread was taken an hour before Samba was technically in Seoul, however as you can see the rain is coming down in sheets. About anywhere from 150-300mm of rain fell over the space of a few hours during the storm in the Northern areas of the Korean peninsula, including Seoul.
The storm by the time hitting Seoul burned it's self out as a weak tropical depression.
HARD HIT LOCALITIES
Winds in the very Southern areas around Jejudo and the very South tip of the Korean peninsula were in excess of 180Km/hr with gusts up over 190Km/hr. 50-55m/s. Category 2.
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Contrast this to a few weeks ago after Typhoon Bolaven roared through the Seoul metropolitan area doing some considerable damage as a class 1 Typhoon.
Pictures provided by my wife whom works for the KTO (Korea Tourism Office) after Typhoon Bolaven hit Seoul. Picture location is right next to the Canadian Embassy in Gwangwhamun. Those trees made a mess of some expensive cars across the street no doubt.
Also, a few apartment buildings had their windows blown out and many intersections were without power.

Youtube video shows Super Typhoon Bolaven hitting Korea.