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3 Surreal Scenes From Typhoon Meranti
A runaway moon, a painful lesson on why you never ride a scooter in a hurricane….
Supercharged Typhoon Meranti was reportedly the strongest storm to hit southern Taiwan since the late 1800s, churning up waves dozens of feet high and knocking out power to more than a half-million people.
Suitable to a tempest of this magnitude were the scenes being played out under its screaming, sky-blackening clouds. For instance, drivers in Fuzhou on the Chinese coast were confronted with a simulacrum of the moon barreling over their cars. The half-inflated orb was supposedly blown away from an installation celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival: