GLOOMY Residents sit in a truck after the local government ordered preemptive evacuations at Barangay Matnog in Daraga, Albay province on December 25. Super typhoon ‘Nina,’ with gusts reaching 235 kilometers an hour, made landfall in Catanduanes on Sunday. AFP PHOTO
LEGAZPI, Albay: Super typhoon “Nina” (international name “Nock-Ten”) lashed out at the Bicol region before hitting land in Catanduanes province at 6:30 in the evening on Sunday, sending more than one million people to evacuation centers on Christmas Day.