yphoon topples taiwan hotel

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typhoon topples taiwan hotel
taiwan hotel collapses after typhoon.
pretty amazing!  difficult to design against typhoons.
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amazing! i bet the owners neglected to maintain the ballast at the shoreline.
the one news station said that they had 2m of rain in 24 hours, that is about 80" of rain...
it's no more difficult to design against typhoons than it is to design against hurricanes.  this looks like a classic example of soil erosion failure.  they should have had a better seawall, to protect all those structures built along the edge of the river.
typhoon and hurricane is the same thing, it is just the name that is different.
isn't a typhoon in the southern hemisphere, so it has the opposite spin (clockwise)?
shouldn't make any difference in design, though.
typhoon and hurricanes are both tropical cyclones. typhoon is in the name used commonly in the western pacific. hurricane is commonly used in the atlantic.  
typhoon comes from the japanese language, which is probably used in the western pacific.  ty meaning great or big and phoon ('fun') meaning wind.  i believe the term is used both in the southern hemisphere and nothern hemisphere.
saw this mentioned on 'clash of the titans' on the history channel that typhoon was originated from the greek god typhon. (i know wikipedia sucks but it was a quick reference)
i might try to summarise the names given to tropical storms.  tropical cyclones originate in the doldrums, either side of the equator.  they are normally called hurricanes in the atlantic and eastern pacific, typhoons in the western pacific and northern indian above the equator, and tropical cyclones in the western pacific and indian below the equator.  the direction of rotation is counterclockwise in the north, clockwise in the south, regardless of what the storm is called.
anybody know why there don't seem to be tropical cyclones in the south atlantic?