It's not about the typhoon/hurricane, it's about the rainfall and flooding. If you look at rainfall amounts from similar typhoons, they all ended up causing bil

It's not about the typhoon/hurricane, it's about the rainfall and flooding. If you look at rainfall amounts from similar typhoons, they all ended up causing billions of dollars of destruction, and in older cases hundreds of casualties. This would cause just as many issues in south china as it is in Houston, especially when you consider that fast-paced Chinese building patterns are probably even worse about covering up natural drainage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_tropical_cyclone_rainfall_climatology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_tropical_cyclone_rainfal... I will concede that pacific typhoons have much higher record rainfall amounts, but 50in peak accumulation is by no means 'normal' for them either.