EDIT CONTAINS 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> <br />Tropical storm Kai-Tak hit northern Philippines on Tuesday (August 14), drowning two people and prompting more than a dozen provinces to raise floods and landslides alerts.<br/> <br />Kai-Tak was moving at a speed of 17 kph (10.5mph), packing winds of up to 85 kph (52.8 mph) and dumping 35 millimetres of rain (1.3 inches) an hour.<br/> <br />Torrential rains due to the storm are expected to hit the capital, Manila, and surrounding provinces that are still recovering from last week's severe floods.<br/> <br />Waters in the swampy town of Calumpit still reached more than three metres (10 feet), draining slowly due to continuous flows from a nearby dam.<br/> <br />The floods killed 95 people, displaced hundreds of thousands more, and destroyed 53.7 million U.S. dollars' worth of infrastructure and agricultural lands.
