here's a very interesting account of yolanda from someone who's been used to covering natural disasters. worth a read.Meeting a monster: First person accountBy DJ Yap
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Sunday, November 17th, 2013
(Editor’s Note: DJ Yap, the Inquirer’s environment reporter, and photographer Niño Jesus Orbeta were the first Inquirer team sent from Manila to cover Supertyphoon “Yolanda†in Tacloban City. They arrived on Nov. 7, a day before the world’s strongest typhoon landed. His tweet on that fateful Friday morning—“Sounds of glass shattering; hotel guests in lobby, restless, alarmed. ‘Jesus Christ,’ says our fotog Niño Orbeta. ‘Worse than Reming.’â€â€”was the first and last time we heard from them until they sent word through GMA 7 on Saturday night that they made it through the storm.)
The woman’s smile was a ray of sunshine utterly out of place on that dark and desperate Friday.AP File Photo
She was standing among the ruins of an old church in downtown Tacloban when I chanced upon her, just hours after Supertyphoon “Yolanda†(international name: “Haiyanâ€) tore into the city, sending its residents into the clutches of despair.
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