MANILA, Philippines – The second typhoon in a week battered the rain-soaked northern Philippines today, adding misery to thousands of people, some of whom still perched on rooftops while several other Asian nations also reeled from flooding.

Typhoon Nalgae slammed ashore at midmorning today south of northeastern Palanan Bay in Isabela province with winds of 100 mph and dangerous gusts of 121 mph.

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Residents wade through floodwaters in La Paz, Philippines, on Thursday, three days after Typhoon Nesat lashed the country. Typhoon Nalgae came ashore this morning. The Associated Press

It was making a similar path across the saturated Luzon Island as Typhoon Nesat, which earlier in the week killed at least 50 people, left 31 missing and thousands stranded and sent huge waves that breached a seawall in Manila Bay.

Nesat also pummeled southern China and was downgraded to a tropical storm just before churning into northern Vietnam on Friday afternoon, when flood warnings were issued and 20,000 people evacuated.

In the Philippines, nearly 400,000 hunkered down in evacuation centers and in homes of relatives and friends along the new typhoon’s path with heavy rainfall of about an inch an hour within the storm’s 340-mile diameter that put most of the northern provinces including the capital on alert.

Isabela authorities earlier shut down electricity in the province to prevent accidents from falling power pylons and snapped cables.

The howling winds toppled trees and blew away tin roofs of some houses in Isabela’s provincial capital, Ilagan. In nearby Luna township, a bus with about 30 passengers fell on its side on a rice field because of the strong winds, but no one was seriously injured, police said.

At least five towns in the rice-growing province of Bulacan and Pampanga, north of Manila, remained submerged.

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