Residents rushed to the beach to salvage wood and construction materials from boat wreckages as typhoon Molave hit the Philippines.

Families braved the powerful waves slamming into the coast in Buruanga Panay on October 26 while they collected the wood. Some of it was from shipwrecks or damaged homes. The materials will be used to repair their properties or as firewood for cooking.

More than 200,000 residents were affected, mostly in the Southern Tagalog region where, typhoon Molave, or Quinta as it is also known, made landfall multiple times.

Most of the evacuees were from villages that are prone to landslides, flash floods, storm surges, and mudflows.

Typhoon Molave is expected to exit the country today October 27 although it has already moved away from the landmass and is now hovering the West Philippines Sea as it moves towards Vietnam.

Officials in Vietnam, which is still reeling from severe tropical storms this month, have prepared to evacuate more than 1.3 million people. Typhoon Molave is then expected to move into Cambodia and Thailand.