Super Typhoon Sepat came ashore in Taiwan on August 17, 2007, after bringing torrential rain and flooding to the Philippines the day before. Flights to and from Tapei, the island’s capital, were canceled and Chinese authorities were calling all ships at sea to come back to shore in anticipation of the powerful typhoon crossing the Taiwan Strait and coming ashore on the mainland, said news reports. The typhoon was classified as Category Five typhoon, at the very top of the scale, with sustained winds of 184 kilometers per hour (114 miles per hour), according to CNN.