A man waits for a boat to transport him to higher ground on a flooded street after continuous overnight rain brought by Typhoon Sanba in San Juan, Philippines, on Saturday, September 15. Parts of Manila were under 6 feet of water Saturday. More than 400 people had to flee their homes, officials said. See photos of last month's flooding of Manila from monsoon rains. 
Commuters wade through a flooded street Saturday during a heavy downpour in Quezon City, in metro Manila. 
A man drinks a cup of coffee as he wades through water in San Juan on Saturday. 
A group of Filipino commuters ride on top of a delivery truck as it maneuvers on a flooded street in Paranaque, south of Manila, on Saturday. 
A resident rests on a flooded street in Paranaque. 
Flood victims rest in an evacuation center after their houses were flooded in San Juan. 
A resident peers through his half-submerged house in Manila. 
A man walks down a flooded street with a head of lettuce in Manila. 
Stranded passengers are transported on a wooden pushcart in Manila. 
People try to hold onto their personal belongings as they wade along a flooded street in Manila. 
A jeepney pushes through a flooded street in Manila on Saturday. 
Residents ride on a boat near their flooded homes in Manila. 
Children swim in water on a flooded street in San Juan, metro Manila on Saturday. See photos of last month's flooding in Manila from monsoon rains. 
- NEW: Typhoon Sanba makes landfall on Okinawa
- NEW: The eye of the storm is nearly half the island's length
- Sanba has the same intensity as a Category 3 hurricane
- The storm is forecast to make another landfall Monday in South Korea
(CNN) -- A typhoon packing fierce winds made landfall early Sunday in northeastern Okinawa, on its way to possibly causing havoc in the same region where dozens were killed by a big storm last month.
With an eye that is nearly half the island's length, Typhoon Sanba hit the island around 6:30 a.m. (5:30 p.m. ET Saturday).
The storm has estimated winds of 194 kph (120 mph) and gusts nearing 241 kph (149 mph), according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, the U.S. military agency responsible for issuing tropical storm warnings in the Pacific Ocean.
The diameter of the storm's eye was nearly half the length of the Japanese island.
People in Okinawa and along the rest of the Ryukyu Island chain took serious precautions ahead of the storm.
The infrastructure on the island is designed to withstand powerful storms, since the island is in an area of the western Pacific Ocean where typhoons are frequent. But storm surge could prove to be a problem for residents.
"It's a large storm, and it's going to have a fairly wide-reaching effect," CNN International weather anchor Jenny Harrison said.
In the city of Ginowan in southern Okinawa on Saturday afternoon, skies were gray with dark clouds in the distance, according to video from CNN iReporter Kathryn Spoor.
Even though it had weakened since Friday when it was briefly classified as a super typhoon, Sanba now has the same intensity as a Category 3 hurricane, meteorologists say.
A Category 3, on a scale of 1 to 5, is a major hurricane with winds ranging from 111 to 129 mph.
The storm is expected to have a far-reaching effect. It could cause serious flooding in the Philippine capital of Manila, for instance.
Sanba is forecast to make a second landfall in mainland South Korea around noon local time Monday. It could also strike southern mainland Japan.
Last month, Typhoon Bolaven killed more than 60 people on the Korean peninsula. Bolaven had also swept over Okinawa, which escaped relatively unscathed.
16 Sep, 2012
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Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/15/world/asia/typhoon-sanba/index.html?eref=edition
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