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This aerial photo shows uprooted coconut trees on a hill near the town of Guiuan in Eastern Samar province in the central Philippines after Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the town on November 8. Picture: TED ALJIBE

shine like your weather!

it's raining in manila.  it's not a downpour though.

National Basketball Association and NBA Players Association

- $250,000 through the US Fund for UNICEF

Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)

- 200 tons of aid

VIETNAM

- $100,000

VATICAN

- $150,000

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VATICAN CITY -- VATICAN CITY (AP) â€" Pope Francis has led tens of thousands of people at the Vatican in silent prayer for the victims of the typhoon that has ravaged the Philippines.

The pope told a crowd of pilgrims, tourists and Romans in St. Peter's Square on Sunday that he wanted to assure the people of the Philippines and surrounding region that he feels close to them. He lamented the high toll of dead and the enormous damage, then requested silent prayer for "our brothers and sisters." Francis also said: "let us try to get our concrete aid" to those suffering from the storm.

The Philippines has the largest number of Catholics in Asia, and Filipinos are one of Rome's biggest immigrant communities. - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

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UNITED STATES     

- initial $100,000 for water and sanitation
- Troops, emergency respondents, transportation and equipment

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Elements of Okinawa-based 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade board KC-130 for typhoon-ravaged Philippines. Philippine Embassy photo


Philippine and US military personnel load relief goods for Tacloban on board a US C-130 plane for victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan that hit the Cental Philippines, at a military base in Manila on November 11, 2013. AFP
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The USS Denver, an amphibious transport dock ship (in photo), together with the Ashland and Germantown, amphibious warfare ships designed to transport and launch landing craft, has been ordered by the US Navy to prepare to head to the Philippines to help victims of the devastating Supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan), officials said Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. PHOTO FROM WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/USSDENVERLPD9

On Monday evening, the Pentagon announced it was dispatching the aircraft carrier George Washington and its accompanying cruisers and destroyers, including its fleet of helicopters and airplanes.

The carrier group is due to arrive on Thursday or Friday.

Another naval destroyer and a supply ship are also en route to the Philippines.

Read more: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/90627/3-us-amphibious-ships-sent-to-aid-philippines-relief#ixzz2kYSHU5cd

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UNITED NATIONS Children's Fund     

- $1.3 million worth of supplies

UNITED KINGDOM     

- £6 million
- $9.6 million worth of emergency support package

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES     

- Dhs36 million

TURKEY     

- medics, rapid response team, search and rescue personnel

TAIWAN     

- $200,000

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This handout picture taken and released by the Red Cross Society of Taiwan shows volunteer workers of the Red Cross Society of Taiwan in Taipei carrying relief goods destined for the Philippines in the aftermath of devastation left by Super Typhoon Haiyan. Red Cross Society of Taiwan

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SWEDEN   

- emergency communications equipment

SPAIN     

- EUR 1.1 million
- in-kind donations

SINGAPORE     

- $50,000

SAUDI ARABIA

- US$100,000, through Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

RUSSIA     

- rapid response team

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Russia had sent two plane loads of humanitarian aid to typhoon-hit Philippines, the Emergency Situations Ministry said today.

Two Il-76 cargo planes had delivered medical supplies and medical personnel to the Philippines, deputy head of the ministry's crisis center Oleg Voronov told reporters.

The ministry also set up a hotline for relatives of Russian citizens trapped in the Philippines due to the super typhoon Haiyan, which hit the country Friday.

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NORWAY     

- KR 20 million

NEW ZEALAND     

- NZ $2.15 million

THE NETHERLANDS

- undisclosed financial aid

MALAYSIA

- medical and search and rescue teams

JAPAN     

- emergency relief medical team

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ISRAEL   

- team of medical, trauma and relief professionals

INDONESIA     

- in-kind donations

HUNGARY   

- search and rescue personnel and rapid response team

GERMANY     

- 23 tons of relief goods
- medical team, International Search and Rescue Team Germany

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Workers load aid packages for the victims of typhoon 'Haiyan' in the Philippines into a Lufthansa aircraft at Frankfurt International Airport in Frankfurt am Main, central Germany. DPA / FREDRIK VON ERICHSEN

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EUROPEAN UNION     

- EUR 3 million

DENMARK

- KR 10 million

CHINA

- $100,000

CANADA

- C$5 million

BELGIUM

- medical and search and rescue personnel

subject to updates as new information is available


AUSTRALIA

-US$10 million package

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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the Australian Government will contribute $10 million in aid, which will include $390,500 of emergency supplies previously announced by Ms Bishop on Saturday.

"I have approved a $10 million package of humanitarian assistance. This comprises the urgent deployment of an Australian medical assistance team - at a cost of about $1 million, $3 million to be deployed through Australian non-government organisations, $4 million to the United Nations flash appeal," she said.

"[We will also contribute] $1 million for additional food items and non-food items, which includes the funding already announced - so tarps, mosquito nets, water containers and the like, and $1 million to the Red Cross to assist in their disaster response efforts."

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The Australian government is sending a self-sustained hospital complete with operating room, generators, water purifiers, doctors, surgeons, nurses and all. Furthermore, should there be worst medical cases, patients will be airlifted to Royal Darwin Hospital as Darwin is only 4 hours away from the Philippines by plane. Australian armed forces already have standby planes and helicopters to assist Philippine Armed forces to scout remote areas for rescue operations.

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here are hopes that typhoon yolanda's survivors are just as extraordinary.

this viral thing... an appeal born by utter distrust of politicians?



Sana ang lahat ng perang tinulong ng ibat ibang bansa para sa mga nasalanta ni yolanda ay huwag nakawin ng sino mang gahaman sa pera na politiko. ang malaking halaga ng pera na matatanggap ng pilipinas ay Malaking tulong para sa pagbangon ng ating kababayan sa kabisayaan.

Maawa naman sana silang mga nasa gobyerno sa lahat ng naapektuhan ng bagyong yolanda.

and if by chance i be
given to more imaginings,
percy's full name must
be sir percival. this dog knight
may adore you by the light
of the moon, but
his thoughts wander
all the way to pluto and its
mystery.

what a terrific article.  incisive.  this inspires me more to hew close to the basics of my faith, come what may.  hello, there, fr chic and lorenz!

done with your study workload after a week of absence here, lorenz?  i hope so.

Beijing’s initial $2.6 million response to the tsunami was criticized at the time as inadequate. By contrast, Taiwan had offered $5 million.

Several days later, and just before Prime Minister Wen Jiabao was due to leave for an international conference in Jakarta to coordinate aid for the tsunami victims, China announced it had increased its assistance.


http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/

China has gradually increased its international humanitarian assistance since early 2005, when a cargo plane loaded with medicine, food, electrical generators and a 35-member Chinese medical team were dispatched to the Indonesian province of Aceh after it was devastated in the Indian Ocean tsunami.

It was the first visible effort by China at a foreign disaster scene, an effort that, while small compared to other countries’, stood out for the youthfulness of the doctors and their bright red medical tents.

On Monday, about 90 United States Marines arrived in the Philippines from their base in Japan to help distribute food assistance, and two Navy surveillance aircraft were dispatched for air and sea rescues. The United States Embassy in Manila made $100,000 immediately available for health and sanitation efforts, according to its Twitter feed. Meanwhile, private American aid groups geared up to provide medicine and food, with World Vision announcing a target of $3 million in donations from the United States, and $20 million worldwide.

In September, China said it would give a $1.5 million cash grant to Pakistan, its close friend, after an earthquake killed an estimated 500 people in the province of Baluchistan.

After a tropical storm hit the Philippines in 2011, China pledged $1 million in humanitarian aid. That was before relations between the two countries soured over disputed islands and reefs in the South China Sea.

China Offers Relatively Modest Aid for Typhoon Victims

By JANE PERLEZ
November 11, 2013


Residents walk past debris and victims' bodies in Tacloban, three days after Typhoon Haiyan hit the city in the central Philippines. Ted Aljibe/Agence France-Presse â€" Getty Images

As international aid pours into the Philippines for victims of Typhoon Haiyan, China has offered $100,000 in cash, a figure that seems modest compared with its other recent contributions for humanitarian relief abroad.

Qin Gang, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told reporters on Monday that China would send that amount to help the Philippines recover from a disaster that has left as many as 10,000 people dead. Asked if the donation was scaled according to the current chill in relations between China and the Philippines, Mr. Qin declined to answer.

kumusta na man ang uwan dinha sa inyo karon, loll?  uwan diay sa bohol, matod pa ni wards sa shout out.  in manila, dark skies lang and a smattering of rain.  dili kusog, mora lang ug nanghadla.  mao sad kuno sa cebu.  i hope it's not raining in leyte and samar.

who are involved in flash appeals?

-[...]Under the overall leadership of the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator, the Humanitarian/Resident Coordinator is responsible for the production, content and
quality of the document, with the help of OCHA.

-The Flash Appeal is prepared in consultation with key humanitarian actors, which may include UN agencies, government officials, NGOs, the Red Cross Movement, donors and other relevant actors.

-The Flash Appeal may include projects from UN agencies, international organisations, and NGOs. (Note: government ministries cannot be appealing agencies, but may be partners in UN projects.)

-The Red Cross Movement is welcome to include their projects in the Flash Appeal but may prefer to include an Annex to the document outlining their requirements.


more at http://www.lcgbangladesh.org/derweb/achieve/docs/2004/UN%20Flash%20Appeal/OCHA%20Flash%20Appeal%20Guidelines%202003.pdf

it's in the news that the united nations will issue a flash appeal for the philippines, if it hasn't done that already.  what exactly is a flash appeal?

from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) of the United Nations:

-A Flash Appeal provides a concise overview of urgent life-saving needs at the onset of an emergency.

-It generally anticipates needs for up to six months.

-The Flash Appeal also includes an abbreviated Common Humanitarian Action Plan (CHAP).

-The Flash Appeal may be developed into a Consolidated Appeal, with a more complete CHAP, if the emergency continues beyond six months.

“There are forms of assistance which has not been assigned monetary evaluation by the donors. The estimated amount was also processed through an online currency conversion tool that does not factor in inter-bank rates and daily fluctuations and foreign exchange rates,” he said.

UN flash appeal

At the ongoing briefing for its flash appeal and action plan for the country, the United Nations said that $301 million will be needed for the typhoon-battered central Philippines. â€" BM, GMA News

Int'l aid for Yolanda victims estimated at P2.366B, says DFA

By MICHAELA DEL CALLAR
November 12, 2013

Total international aid to support the relief and rehabilitation efforts in typhoon-ravaged areas in Central Philippines is estimated at P2.366 billion, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.

Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez said the Philippines has so far received 33 offers of assistance from foreign donors.

“It must be noted that the actual value could be significantly higher since we can account only for financial aid, in-kind donations and deployment of rescue personnel with available cost information,” Hernandez told a press briefing.

babayeng bagyo ra man diay ang makapahawa nila.  kita natarok gihapon.  viva, pilipinas!

Soldiers escort a truck loaded with relief supplies in typhoon-devastated Tacloban City on Monday, November 11. Additional soldiers and policemen were deployed to many typhoon-affected areas in Samar, Leyte, Iloilo, and Cebu following widespread reports of looting. Reuters/Edgar Su

given the chance kun malisoan ko simbako, i'll invent humanquake in lieu of an earthquake, kanang mo-quake lang ang mga tawo nga dungan tanan aron way damage.

Quote from: hubag bohol on November 12, 2013, 06:33:42 AM
So far, tears and emotional pleas appear incapable of breaking the gridlock that epitomizes the UN climate negotiations. That gridlock is to a large extent courtesy of the United States obstructionist strategies. In the early days of the negotiations our representatives demanded that market based approaches be made front and center, threatening to refuse participation otherwise. Then the U.S. refused to ratify the protocol in any case. Then our representatives insisted that we would do nothing whatsoever that could "harm the American way of life" (aka interfere with ruthless profit making economic growth). The subtext of that statement being "no matter what the consequences for other people's lives elsewhere"). Then our president waltzed into Copenhagen and arrogantly undermined the hard work of an international consensus, ignoring protocol to ram through an American version of an "agreement." The purpose apparently was to remove the fangs from any serious commitments and stir the smoldering embers of discontent and disunity that were already in place as nations around the world faced compromises they were already reluctant to accept.

the rest of the world, those who suffer most from climate change, can thus just hope and pray that one day soon it would be "the american way of life" that ends up suffering the most.

sure ko di ni siya stuffed toy.  a giveaway is the setting; that's a veterinary clinic and the dog is on the veterinary examination table.  it had just been groomed.

what a well-groomed fashionista!

Quote from: hubag bohol on November 08, 2013, 04:33:21 AM
Apan aron lang pag-seguro, sunod namo nga anak among hatagan og pangan nga di kaayo bagsik. Ok ra tingali ang Taligsik. (@insoymada on Twitter)

dag-om na lang kaha ang ingan aron wa gyoy mabasa.  sure gyod hinoon ko nga kun baye, di gyod manganlan ug yolanda.

or, may i go to the rest room to relieve myself of my anger with you?

i searched the web and it looks like there are many bermoys in tagbilaran city at the moment.  if anyone of them can lead juanito bermoy to his children, that would be great.

Juanito Bermoy

sya po si tatay Juanito Bermoy na taga-Tagbilaran, Bohol..napunta sya sa Palawan mula nung namatay asawa nya..22years na po sya hindi nakakauwi..akala daw po ng mga anak nya patay na daw po sya..nakilala ko po sya sa Bgy. Buenavista, Puerto Princesa City..pagtitinda po ng panggatong ang hanapbuhay nya..nung kinuhanan ko po sya ng picture, sabi ko tutulungan ko po sya mahanap yung mga anak nya, ito lang po alam kong paraan para matulungan sya..pakishare naman po pls lang........

By: Geve Compasivo

Sweet potatoes are far superior than the run-of-the-mill white potato.

The orange variety contains beta carotene, which makes them filled with robust antioxidant, antiviral, and anticancer abilities. They’re also full of fiber and the vitamin E they contain is healthy for the skin.


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Red bell pepper is bursting with vitamin C, making it a powerful immune builder.

Red bell pepper’s high level of beta carotene turns into vitamin A, making it a strong defense against disease. Although green and yellow peppers are certainly healthy, they’re more superfoodish. Although they both have similar amounts of vitamin C, red bell peppers have quite a bit more of the superstar beta carotene.

Artichoke supports the liver.

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"Ang hindi lang po maganda ay yung looting na kasama na yung television set, pati po yung signage ng McDonalds na 'drive thru' nakalagay.  Meron kaming nakita bitbit yun. Anong gagawin mo doon? Utang na loob, di ba? Ibebenta mo ba yun?" he said.

-Cabinet Secretary Jose Rene Almendras on the reported looting in Tacloban City

Palace: 'Don't take advantage of misery of fellow Pinoys', By KIMBERLY JANE TAN, GMA News, November 11, 2013, more at http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/334927/news/nation/palace-don-t-take-advantage-of-misery-of-fellow-pinoys

Ormoc City, Leyte

During a press conference on Monday, presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda likewise said "there was no walk out."

"Hindi po siya nagalit. Nag-break lang po siya," he said.

He explained that Aquino only wanted the officials to settle conflicting figures before they proceeded with their discussion.

"That’s a normal way of the President would do things. So there was no walk out. He just asked for them to clear things up, he’ll take a break first, and then after five minutes he came back," he said.

Lacierda added that the President was surprised when he found out that news spread that he had walked out of the briefing.

"[He said] “Ha? Nagwalk out ba ako?” Hindi. He [PNoy] just took a break," Lacierda said. â€" Kimberly Jane Tan/RSJ, GMA News

Quote from: islander on November 10, 2013, 05:40:46 PMoh-oh, i hope not much meaning is put into that 10-minute lull.  how about an emergency bodily demand and the rest room is in that nearby police station?

Quote from: Chongki on November 10, 2013, 05:50:43 PMagree .... nangihi ra tu sya

Quote from: taga tigbao on November 10, 2013, 06:03:45 PMNangihi dang hithit siguro to ijang gibuhat.

hehe, pasar na ta as de facto presidential spokespersons.

Palace: No walkout, just bathroom break for PNoy

November 11, 2013

At least two Malacañang officials denied that President Benigno Aquino III walked out of the disaster relief briefing in Tacloban, Leyte on Sunday.

In a statement issued Sunday night, the Palace said Presidential Communications Operations Office Assistant Secretary for Media Relations Renato Marfil "denies President Aquino walked out of disaster relief briefing in Tacloban, says he just took a bathroom break."

Marfil issued the statement after it was reported that Aquino walked out of the briefing after being dismayed at the supposed unpreparedness of local officials there against Typhoon Yolanda.

Aside from this, the President was also reportedly annoyed when a local businessman asked him to declare Martial Law to prevent anymore instances of looting.

Residents salvage items from a shop on Sunday, November 10, after super typhoon Yolanda battered Tacloban City on November 8. One of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people (Reuters' unconfirmed estimate) in the central Philippines, a senior police official said, with huge waves sweeping away entire coastal villages and devastating the province's main city. As rescue workers struggled to reach ravaged villages along the coast, where the death toll is as yet unknown, survivors foraged for food as supplies dwindled or searched for lost loved ones. Reuters/Romeo Ranoco

Quote from: islander on November 11, 2013, 04:40:22 PM"It's better to buy locally and stimulate the local economy," he said.

another true.

Quote from: islander on November 11, 2013, 04:39:07 PMArbon added that "the most difficult phase of disaster relief will occur over the coming months and years when communities will struggle to find the support that they need as the world's attention moves on to the next disaster or crisis."

true.

"The devastation is beyond comprehension. We urgently need funds to meet the basic needs of children and their families," said Save the Children chief executive Paul Ronalds, whose organization has deployed rapid response teams to badly-hit Tacloban.

A humanitarian forum being held in Sydney this week, originally intended to look at the Syrian crisis, will now focus on the international response to the Philippines disaster with Australian Red Cross chief Robert Tickner Monday warning it will take years to rebuild.

"Whole communities smashed, horrific loss of life," he said, adding that anyone who wanted to help should make a cash donation rather than sending goods, which may not be what is immediately needed.

"It's better to buy locally and stimulate the local economy," he said. â€" Agence France-Presse


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"Typically, the well-meaning efforts of communities around the world result in an unmanageable influx of all kinds of goods into disaster zones and this creates a log jam in ports and airports that disables more targeted disaster relief."

Arbon added that "the most difficult phase of disaster relief will occur over the coming months and years when communities will struggle to find the support that they need as the world's attention moves on to the next disaster or crisis."

On the ground in the Philippines, aid workers on Monday said the scene was one of utter devastation with millions of people affected.

"Aid organizations undoubtedly have more to learn from post-tsunami success stories about how to work within traumatized communities in order to ensure that aid funding is well targeted and effective."

Paul Arbon, director of the government-run Torrens Resilience Institute in South Australia that was set up to improve the capacity of organizations to respond to disasters, agreed more thought must be put into the relief effort.

"Foremost, it is important that we make donations with thought and care," he said.

But Martin Mulligan, chief investigator on an Australian research project conducted for AusAID on what could be learned from the post-tsunami recovery in Sri Lanka and southern India, said it was important to get it right this time.

"It is always the most vulnerable people who bear the brunt of such ferocious disasters and I'm not convinced that the disaster response 'industry' has learnt the lessons on how to rebuild devastated communities," he said.

"The immediate post-tsunami relief effort was impressive but many mistakes were made â€" perhaps inevitably â€" in the targeting of aid for long-term social recovery," he said.

Some observers, including the British Red Cross, complained that the relief effort was hampered by rivalries between agencies, delivery of inappropriate aid and difficulty in managing the huge sums of money donated.

Others said much of the reconstruction funding that was promised was never actually distributed, while money was squandered due to corruption, mismanagement, and unnecessary duplication of aid efforts.

Survivors of super typhoon Haiyan â€" which is feared to have have killed more than 10,000 people â€" are growing increasingly desperate for aid and countries and organizations are scrambling to mobilize and donate.

Disaster experts warn on avoiding 2004 relief effort mistakes in PHL

November 11, 2013


'Yolanda' flattens Guiuan, Samar. Almost all structures in Guiuan, Eastern Samar were either damaged or flattened by super typhoon Yolanda on November 8 as seen in this aerial photo taken from a PAF helicopter on Sunday, November 10. Yolanda made its first landfall in Guiuan. AFP Central Command

Sydney â€" Disaster experts warned Monday that mistakes made in the relief effort after the catastrophic 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami must not be repeated with the super typhoon that has smashed the Philippines.

The humanitarian response to the tsunami, which left some 275,000 dead and wreaked havoc across Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand nine years ago, sparked heated debate about the size, form and deployment of assistance.

cute.  what pleasant faces boknoy and raki have.  as pleasant as those faces at the avatar of the poster.

Members of the Japan Disaster Relief Medical Team gather before their departure for a disaster relief mission to the Philippines at Narita international airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, November 11, 2013. Rescue workers struggled to reach ravaged towns and villages in the central Philippines on Monday while soldiers tried to quell looting in the chaotic aftermath of a powerful typhoon that killed an estimated 10,000 people and displaced more than 600,000. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

be safe there, loll.  please continue to update us.  (asa na man tuod to si lorenz?  tied down to research, surely.  kun nia pa to, nice na unta sa atong easy source of formula prayers... sige lang, he'll be around again soon.)

Third, there is very little wind shear in the area at this time, McNoldy said. Wind shear, a difference in wind speed or direction with increasing altitude, tears developing hurricanes apart, and prevents them from strengthening. Wind shear caused by westerly winds is the main reason why the Atlantic hurricane season featured few strong storms, and got off to a late start, weather experts say.




text from @livescience as excerpted from
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/

Second, ocean temperatures are incredibly warm, topping out at 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius).  Just as important, the warm water also extends deep into the ocean, meaning that upwelling caused by the winds will not churn up cold water, which dampens cyclone power, McNoldy said. Tropical cyclones are basically giant heat engines, powered by the transfer of heat from the ocean to the upper atmosphere.

Haiyan got so strong because "it has everything working for it," McNoldy said. First, it formed in the open ocean, and thus no land mass prevented it from forming a symmetrical circular pattern, which helps a cyclone form and gather steam, he said.

Ryan Maue, a meteorologist with Weatherbell Analytics, wrote on Twitter that Haiyan has the strongest winds seen since the 1979 Super Typhoon Tip, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone on record. Haiyan's winds make it the strongest storm in the satellite era.

hehehe, how did you know that i'm descended from dragons?

di na lang ko mahibung. hands down, mas mosalig pa kog 7th day adventists nungka iglesia ni cristo.

Residents walk past the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013, in Daanbantayan town, north Cebu, central Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record, slammed into six central Philippine islands on Friday, leaving a wide swath of destruction and scores of people dead. AP Photo/Chester Baldicantos (http://www.philstar.com/)

Guiuan, Eastern Samar. Photo by Colonel Philip Lapinid of CENTCOM

Based on an eyewitness account of civil military operations officer of Centcom Colonel Philip Lapinid who joined the aerial survey, 100 percent of structures in Guiuan “either had their roofs blown away or sustained major damage.”

“Nearly all coconut trees fell. We saw people in the streets, seemingly dazed. Trucks and cars were left in the streets where they were stopped in their tracks as Yolanda struck…It was almost lunchtime but there was no smoke from cooking fires,” he said in his Facebook post.

Unlike in Tacloban City in nearby Leyte province, Lapinid said in a separate interview with INQUIRER.net that there were no signs of dead bodies on the streets.

“There were a few people walking. No vehicles were moving but there were few bikes and motorcycles moving around,” he said.


Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/524667/afps-first-aerial-survey-of-guiuan-reveals-a-town-in-ruins#ixzz2kMc97D5n

Guiuan, Eastern Samar, where Yolanda made its first landfall. Photo by Colonel Philip Lapinid of CENTCOM

oh, no.  on the bright side, a signal 1 is way better than a signal 4, although no signal is best.  take care there, loll.

Quote from: taga tigbao on November 10, 2013, 12:15:24 PM
Dihay weather report sa CNN about the possibility of this TD becoming a typhoon. Slim daw ang chance ug unta dili na mahimong strong typhoon pa ni.

iiway na ang philippines, lord, please, dear god, have mercy. amen.

our prayers for the best.

one of the best editorials i've read.  thank you.

We who survived, we who had it better after earth shook and the storm went on a rampage, we will not consider ourselves better off while you are down on your knees. We will not rejoice until you are whole again, or at least until you are strong enough to bear the sight of your scars.

We will not leave you behind.

Rise. Let us march forward.


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