Words do not fail me it would take a very long time to say/write them...
Posted by hanna on 11/9/2013, 2:56 pm
this article is very long.  It made cry to say the least there are 152 pictures that will say what I will not.  There two videos I believe, I need a break from what I have been seeing and reading.

This comes from the Weather Channel.  I will only post parts the rest of the articles is at http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/super-typhoon-haiyan-latest-news-20131108?hootPostID=cfbf92be3ddb049332061f7cbe94427c

More than a thousand people may be dead in the wake of the most powerful storm on record this year, according to NBC News. Unconfirmed estimates from the Philippine Red Cross suggest that at least 1,200 people may have died in the storm-1,000 in the coastal city of Tacloblan, and at least 200 more in the Samar province.
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The Philippine Red Cross and its partners were preparing for a major relief effort "because of the magnitude of the disaster," said the agency's chairman, Richard Gordon.

Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said Aquino was "speechless" when he told him of the devastation the typhoon had wrought in Tacloban.

"I told him all systems are down," Gazmin said. "There is no power, no water, nothing. People are desperate. They're looting."

The airport in Tacloban, a city of 200,000 located about 360 miles southeast of Manila, looked like a muddy wasteland of debris Saturday, with crumpled tin roofs and upturned cars. The airport tower's glass windows were shattered, and air force helicopters were busy flying in and out at the start of relief operations.

U.S. Marine Col. Mike Wylie surveyed the damage in Tacloban prior to possible American assistance. "The storm surge came in fairly high and there is significant structural damage and trees blown over," said Wylie, who is a member of the U.S.-Philippines Military Assistance Group based in Manila.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement that America "stands ready to help."

Here are some of the latest information from the areas slammed by Haiyan:

Unconfirmed reports from the Philippine Red Cross suggest that at least 1,200 people may have died in the storm.
   
The Associated Press reports that 138 people have been confirmed dead.

A civil aviation official in the Philippines says he has received a report that more than 100 bodies are lying in the streets of a central city ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan.

More than 100 homes were flattened on the coast of Southern Leyte province, Gov. Roger Mercado told DZBB radio of Manila.

The town of Palo in Leyte province is reportedly under 10 feet of water from a storm surge, the official government news agency, PNA, said Saturday."

ABS-CBN News. Power is also down in areas of Bohol, a province still recovering from the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the area in October.

Tropical meteorology expert Dr. Jeff Masters said that with sustained winds at 195 mph and gusting to 235 mph, the storm was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to ever make landfall and "the 4th strongest tropical cyclone in world history. The previous record was held by the Atlantic's Hurricane Camille of 1969, which made landfall in Mississippi with 190 mph winds."

"The water was as high as a coconut tree," said 44-year-old Sandy Torotoro, a bicycle taxi driver who lives near the airport with his wife and 8-year-old daughter. "I got out of the jeep and I was swept away by the rampaging water with logs, trees and our house, which was ripped off from its mooring."

"It was like a 747 flying just above my roof," he said, describing the sound of the winds. He said his family and some of his neighbors whose houses were destroyed took shelter in his basement.

Nearly 800,000 people were forced to flee their homes and damage was believed to be extensive. About 4 million people were affected by the typhoon, the national disaster agency said.

Relief workers said they were struggling to find ways to deliver food and other supplies, with roads blocked by landslides and fallen trees.

Tim Ticar, a local tourism officer, said 6,000 foreign and local tourists were stranded on the popular resort island of Boracay, one of the tourist spots in the typhoon's path



 
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