Typhoon Toraji unleashed floods, knocked down trees and caused power outages in the northern Philippines before weakening into a tropical storm and blowing out to the South China Sea, officials said Tuesday as they braced for another approaching storm.

A tropical storm that strengthened over the weekend made landfall as a typhoon in the northern Philippines, as the country grapples with millions of dollars in crop damage from a series of relentless cyclones this year.

Thousands of people are being forcibly evacuated from 2,500 villages in the northern Philippines as another typhoon threatens the region already devastated by floods and landslides from three storms in less than a month.