UTTER DEVASTATION - Philippines Typhoon Tacloban residents scramble for supplies

[Serpo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JQO8kl7ny8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JQO8kl7ny8

[Dogman]

Yes, it is going to be bad. Have been waiting on the results of the hit, but thinking it is going to be a while. That typhoon kicked ass and took names. Bunch of islands and such.

I am thinking the death toll is going to be way over the 10,000 number they are guesstamating for now.

[Cebu_4_2]

Still no communication to my wife's families island.

[Serpo]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2496954/Philippines-super-typhoon-Haiyan-powerful-storm-history.htmlhttp://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/09/article-2494635-194D610B00000578-774_964x608.jpghttp://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/10/article-2496954-1952635200000578-232_964x635.jpg

[Cebu_4_2]

You know who cleans and fixes everything? The people do. One time there was a small typhoon that left a mess, when I got back in the evening it was all cleaned up like nothing ever happened.

[Serpo]

I was just over there between cyclones..................

[Twisted Titan]

I cant even phatom what 270 mph winds sound like.


I remember Sandy meager 80mph and that was truly frightening.

God bless those people

[Uncle Salty]

The ultimate survival tool would seem to be a water purifying survival straw. At least you could keep hydrated even if there is little food.

[ximmy]

You know who cleans and fixes everything? The people do. One time there was a small typhoon that left a mess, when I got back in the evening it was all cleaned up like nothing ever happened.

I just asked my friend who is from there. That's what he said, they expect a typhoon will wipe out their home at some point. Then they rebuild them.

[EE_]

I heard ther are 7,000 islands in the Philippine's. The death rate will probably be much higher.

The US is sending aid...where's our good buddy China helping out?

[Serpo]

Daughter’s last words: ‘Ma, just let go… Save yourself’

By DJ Yap (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/byline/dj-yap)
Philippine Daily Inquirer (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/source/philippine-daily-inquirer) 12:30 am | Monday, November 11th, 2013


http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/newsinfo.inquirer.net/files/2013/11/618x309xyolanda-tacloban-victims-1111.jpg.pagespeed.ic.M_xzkEuaNX.jpg (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/files/2013/11/yolanda-tacloban-victims-1111.jpg)SO YOUNG. A man brings his lifeless 6-year-old daughter to the morgue at the downtown area in Tacloban City, one of the fatalities in the storm surge whipped up by Supertyphoon “Yolanda.” NIÑO JESUS ORBETA

TACLOBAN CITY—High school teacher Bernadette Tenegra, 44, would never forget the last words of her daughter.

“Ma, just let go. Save yourself,” said the girl, whose body was pierced by wooden splinters from houses crushed by Supertyphoon “Yolanda.”
“I was holding her and I kept telling her to hang on, that I was going to bring her up. But she just gave up,” said Tenegra, her face contorted in grief.
The sun was shining only hours after the deadly landfall of the monster typhoon, casting a clearer light on the misery that had descended upon the city on Friday and the Tenegra home on the bank of a river.
Yolanda cut through Tacloban like a scythe, sending walls of water across the downtown area in a furious rush, toppling power lines and felling houses, wrecking trucks and cars totally and, in many many cases, ending lives.
Dozens of corpses turned up under piles of rubble. Some bodies lined the roadside, covered in blankets, staining the pavement with bright red blood.
People with missing relatives tentatively approached each one, peeking at the faces. One tearful man shook his head, muttering, “Not him.” Two teenage boys openly wept when they found what they were looking for: the body of their dead father.
The Tenegra family had huddled together in their shanty at Barangay (village) 66-Paseo de Legazpi, believing it could weather the storm as it had always done in the past.
But as the water rose with astonishing speed, the house toppled over, sweeping away the occupants, including Tenegra’s husband and her other daughter. They were able to scramble to safety, but the youngest Tenegra was spun around by the current along with the deadly debris.
“I crawled over to her, and I tried to pull her up. But she was too weak. It seemed she had already given up,” the mother said.
“And then I just let go,” she said, crying.
Mute shock was etched on the faces of survivors, many of whom were unfamiliar with storms as fierce as this one.
Barracks flattened
Richard Bilisario, an Air Force man, was carried by violent waves that demolished his unit’s barracks at the military base overlooking the Leyte Gulf.
“At first, the wind was only coming from inland, so we didn’t really mind it. Then suddenly we heard the howling from the sea,” he recalled.
“When we opened the door to check, the water was already up to the knee. And as soon as the door was opened, the water just rushed in, and the 11 of us were thrown away,” he said.
Four are still missing, including their commander, Bilisario said.
At downtown Tacloban, two men silently pushed a wooden cart carrying the bloated bodies of a woman, her teenage son and her baby on the flooded main avenue.
The men took their gruesome load through the streets, as kibitzers watched in morbid fascination.
The woman’s name was Erlinda Mingig, 48, a fish vendor. She had been trapped in her one-story home with her two children, John Mark, 12, and 1-year-old Jenelyn, at Barangay 39-Calvaryhill.
“I told them to stay in the house because it was safer,” said Mingig’s husband, Rogelio, 48.
But the water was rising dangerously fast. When Erlinda tried to open the door to escape, it would not budge,” the man said.
“We found her embracing the children in one arm and grabbing on to the ceiling with the other,” he said.

Double whammy
Some of the bereaved expressed conflicted feelings of guilt: Why they survived, and why their loved ones didn’t. And in at least one case, why they had been able to save others, but not their own.
Reinfredo Celis, chair of Barangay 31-Pampango, spent most of Thursday and early Friday morning transporting his neighbors to a sturdy school building downtown, on his multipurpose cab.
But he didn’t even consider evacuating his own wife, believing they were safe in their concrete two-story house. He was mistaken.
Businessman Lemuel Honor, a former vice mayor of a Southern Leyte town, said Tacloban had been swamped by two different bodies of water.
“Two seas actually met over Tacloban: the Cancabato Bay and the Tacloban Bay,” he said.
The first wave of the calamity came when Yolanda barreled inland from the Pacific Ocean via the Tacloban Bay, and the second, when its tail pulled in waves from the Cancabato Bay in the opposite direction, he said.
“This is why you’d be confused why there were waves coming from both directions, first westward, then eastward,” Honor said.
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[Serpo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AygzuABaD_Q&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AygzuABaD_Q&feature=youtu.be

[Serpo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzxTXk1JCFw#t=702http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzxTXk1JCFw#t=702

Microwave Pulse gives birth to Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)

[mick silver]

i remember seeing this on the local news and they said it not to bad it went over fast , then i look at my wife and said i bet there could more then a 100.000 dead from that strom and i bet that number maybe low now