MANILA: Super Typhoon Man-yi uprooted trees, brought down power lines and smashed flimsy houses to pieces as it swept across the storm-weary Philippines on Sunday (Nov 17), following an unusual streak of violent weather. Man-yi was still packing maximum sustained winds of 185 kmh and gusts of up to 230 kmh, after making landfall on lightly populated Catanduanes island late Saturday. More than 1.2 million people fled their homes ahead of Man-yi as the national weather service warned of a "life-