Send more troopsAn Waray Rep. Neil Montejo felt more back-up forces were needed to restore order in Tacloban, and proposed that additional troops be sent to the city, according to House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte.
Belmonte said he would meet House leaders Monday for a discussion of ways to help in the relief and rehabilitation effort.
The scenes in Tacloban, a city of 220,000 people, and other coastal towns were reminiscent of a tsunami aftermath, with concrete slabs the only part of many homes remaining, vehicles flipped over and power lines destroyed.
“This is destruction on a massive scale. There are cars thrown like tumbleweed and the streets are strewn with debris,†Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, the head of a United Nations disaster assessment coordination team, said in Tacloban.
“The last time I saw something of this scale was in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami,†he said, referring to the 2004 disaster that claimed about 220,000 lives.
Yolanda hit Leyte and the neighboring island province of Samar with maximum sustained winds of 215 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 250 kph early on Friday, generating storm surges of up to 3 meters high that roared deep inland.
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