Saomai makes landfall

Saomai has made landfall just below super typhoon strength, with reported 150 mph winds. China has evacuated 1,300,000 people in the lowest lying areas in the storm's path. Damage and casualty reports probably won't be available for quite some time, as the storm is expected to maintain typhoon strength for over 12 hours inland. (Note that the article I've linked to calls the storm surge a "tsunami". I'm not sure if this is a British usage, or just that since the Indian Ocean tsunami, they expect more people to know what a "tsunami" is than storm surge flooding.)