A fireman walks under the heavy wind at a waterfront where a barge slipped its moorings and ran aground on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. Hong Kong’s stock market suspended trading and shops and businesses shuttered as Typhoon Nesat made its way across the South China Sea from the Philippines, where the storm killed 35 people and left another 45 missing. Photo: AP
Rescuers carry the body of one of the four victims when a concrete wall collapsed in suburban Valenzuela, northern Manila, Philippines on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. Manila residents waded through waist-deep floodwaters, dodging branches and flying debris on Tuesday as the powerful typhoon sent surging waves as tall as palm trees crashing over seawalls and submerging entire neighbourhoods. Photo: AP
Rescuers assist a man carrying the body of his newly born child. The death toll in Typhoon Nesat’s onslaught in the Philippines rose to 23 on Wednesday, as the country began to clean up the destruction left behind by the powerful cyclone. Photo: AP
A man hangs on to what remains of a house that was built on stilts as he tries to recover his belongings after Typhoon Nesat wiped out most of his neighbours' homes along a coastal village in Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. Photo: AP
Rescuers remove a piece of metal as they try to recover the bodies of four victims when a concrete wall collapsed in suburban Valenzuela City of northern Manila. Photo: AP
Residents recover belongings after the powerful Nesat wiped out most of their homes near the bay along a coastal village in Navotas in Philippines. Thirty-five people, most of them fishermen, went missing. Most of the fatalities were caused by uprooted trees, collapsing structures or flying debris. Photo: AP
Residents reinforce their houses at the height of typhoon Nesat on Tuesday in Manila, Philippines. Nearly 53,000 people were forced to flee their homes as the typhoon’s heavy rains triggered floods and landslides. Winds tore off roofs, toppled electricity and communication poles, uprooted trees and damaged houses and other structures. Photo: AP
Residents try to save items from their flooded homes in Manila. Most deaths occurred in metropolitan Manila, which already was soaked by heavy monsoon rains ahead of Typhoon Nesat's arrival. Photo: AP
People walk along a flooded street in Navotas, north of Manila in Philippines, after Nesat hit the country. Massive flooding hit the Philippine capital on Tuesday as typhoon winds and rains isolated the historic old city where residents waded in waist-deep waters, dodging tree branches and debris. Photo: AP
Residents arrive at an evacuation centre after fleeing their homes on Tuesday in Manila, Philippines. Emergency repair crews were clearing roads, debris and stalled cars as schools and offices reopened on Wednesday. Photo: AP
Filipino children play inside a school that is used as a temporary evacuation centre after residents fled their flooded homes in Philippines on Wednesday Sept. 28, 2011.
Evacuees stay inside an evacuation center, a day after Typhoon Nesat submerged their houses on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, in suburban Quezon City north of Manila, Philippines. More than 50,000 had moved to government-run evacuation centres and relatives' homes after they were ordered to leave their homes in five towns prone to flash floods and landslides in central Albay province. Photo: AP