Hagupit ravages Philippines

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Typhoon Hagupit hit the Philippines with all the wrath you'd expect of a Category Three storm.

These were the scenes on Monday in Eastern Samar province where the storm first made landfall a day earlier.

The flooded rice paddies aren't good news for the farmers.

But the human toll this time tells a different story, a year after super-typhoon Haiyan left more than 7,000 dead or missing.

This time more than a million people were evacuated from coastal and landslide-prone areas.

By Monday the number of dead stood at four.

Residents of the coastal town of Atimonan are still taking no chances.

Many have taken refuge at a shelter on higher ground because of a feared storm surge.

(SOUNDBITE)(Filipino) ENRIQUITA AREVALO, EVACUEE, SAYING:

"We're safe and secure here. If we stayed near the coastline the waters might swell. We're dead if that happens."

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