The last two typhoons and a tropical storm caused more than 160 deaths, damaged thousands of houses and farmlands and affected more than 9 million people, including hundreds of thousands who fled to emergency shelters, after dumping from one to two months’ worth of rain in just 24 hours in some cities and towns.

Typhoon Yinxing made landfall in the Philippines on Thursday, bringing dangerous winds and intense rainfall to Luzon, the nation’s most populous island. The tropical cyclone, known locally as Marce, hit the north coast of Luzon twice,

Northern Philippine provinces are forcibly evacuating villagers from high-risk areas as a powerful typhoon approached while the country is still recovering from a recent storm that left at least 182 dead and missing and many emergency shelters still crammed with displaced people.

Thousands of people are being forcibly evacuated from 2,500 villages in the northern Philippines as another typhoon threatens the region already devastated by floods and landslides from three storms in less than a month.