Show Typhoons and Cloudbursts Typhoons s have hare produced produce some of the worlds world's most remarkable cloudburst cloud cloud- burst bunt floods wr writes tes Charles FIt i. i hugh Talman In Asia n l Magazine PeT Perhaps laps the most disastrous disastrous' cloudburst cloudburst cloud cloud- burst on record was the one that occurred In the KII FiL p peninsula of or southern Japan Tapan on August 19 durIn during the passage of ot a typhoon The resulting resu flood drowned 1500 persons and caused Immense de destruction destruction de- de e. e of ot property A typhoon also brought the heaviest hour 21 rainfall ever e measured on July 1415 14 14 1 when hen 16 JG Inches Inches' of ot wa water water wa- wa ater a ter r fell n from noon to noon at nt Bagula the summer capital of ot the Philippines starting huge landslides landslides land land- slides that burled buried portions of ot the famous Benquet road rondo But ut a n second second sec sec- see sec ond ond typhoon or repaired some of the damage wrought rought b by the first for tor It It washed away most of the debris reducing It Is soul by til thi the cost of ot rebuilding th the road rondo |