Body bags rushed to devastated areas after typhoon onslaught in the Philippines: death toll feared to be very high
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Subject: Body bags rushed to devastated areas after typhoon onslaught in the Philippines: death toll feared to be very high Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:41 am
Body bags rushed to devastated areas after typhoon onslaught in the Philippines: death toll feared to be very high
November 9, 2013 – Tacloban, PHILIPPINES (CNN) – Officials rushed body bags to devastated communities Saturday after Super Typhoon Haiyan left more than 100 bodies strewn on the streets of one coastal city. The bodies in Tacloban city were the first significant casualty report. A military spokesman said after soldiers arrived at the city, they asked for more bags. “There are numbers of undetermined casualties found along the roads. We have to send the requested 100 body bags in the area,” Lt. Jim Aris Alagao told the Philippines news agency. Shell-shocked Filipinos gathered around the airport, hoping the military was bringing food, water and medicine. Others waded through waist-high water in the streets. Flipped-over vehicles, fallen utility poles and trees snapped in half landed on roads, blocking transportation. Officials say the number of casualties is expected to go up once they get access to devastated areas. It’ll take days to get the full scope of the damage by a typhoon described as one of the strongest storms to make landfall in recorded history. In addition to the fatalities, at least 100 people were injured in Tacloban, said Capt. John Andrews, deputy director of the national Civil Aviation Authority. The destruction is expected to be catastrophic. Storm clouds covered the entire Philippines, stretching 1,120 miles — equal to a distance between Florida and Canada. The deadly wind field, or tropical storm force winds, covered an area the size of Montana or Germany. The typhoon first barreled onto the country’s eastern island of Samar on Friday morning, flooding streets and knocking out power and communications in most of Eastern Visayas region. It first landed near Dulag and Tacloban, flooding coastal communities with a surge of water and delivering 195 mph winds with gusts reaching as high as 235 mph. It continued its march, barreling into five other Philippine islands. -CNN
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Subject: Millions of people have been forced to take shelter Typhoon Haiyan: Hundreds feared dead in Philippines Sat Nov 09, 2013 10:19 am
Millions of people have been forced to take shelter Typhoon Haiyan: Hundreds feared dead in Philippines
on November 9, 2013 Posted In: Natual Disasters, Weather
Super typhoon in Philippines ‘most damaging’ storm of past century
Hundreds of people are feared dead in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan swept through on Friday.
Among the worst hit areas were the eastern island of Leyte and the coastal city of Tacloban, which saw buildings flattened in a storm surge.
First reports said 100 bodies had been found there but the Red Cross later estimated a figure of more than 1,000, with 200 more deaths in Samar province.
Hundreds of thousands of people are reported displaced from their homes.
Typhoon Haiyan – one of the most powerful storms on record to make landfall – is now bearing down on Vietnam, where tens of thousands are being evacuated.
The BBC Weather Centre says the typhoon is expected to make landfall late on Sunday local time (between 03:00 and 09:00 GMT), although it will have decreased markedly in strength.
Storm surges
The latest report from the Philippines’ Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council confirmed 138 deaths as of 10:00 GMT on Saturday. It said almost 350,000 people had been reported displaced.
Sandra Conception: “Most people hid in their closets because their roof tops had been blown off”
The Philippines’ Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla flew to Leyte by helicopter and viewed the devastated fishing town of Palo.
He said he believed “hundreds” of people had died just in that area.
Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of the Philippine Red Cross, said it had received preliminary reports by Red Cross teams in Tacloban and Samar.
She told Reuters news agency the teams had estimated “more than 1,000 bodies floating in Tacloban”.
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We escaped through the windows and I held on to a pole for about an hour as rain, seawater and wind swept through”
Efren NagramaTacloban airport manager
“In Samar, about 200 deaths. Validation is ongoing,” she said.
Video from Tacloban showed it engulfed by a storm surge.
One resident, Sandy Torotoro, told Associated Press he was swept away when his house was ripped from its moorings.
“When we were being swept by the water, many people were floating and raising their hands and yelling for help. But what can we do? We also needed to be helped,” he said.
Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said after landing in Tacloban: “The devastation is, I don’t have the words for it… It’s really horrific. It’s a great human tragedy.”
The airport has been badly damaged and only military flights are able to operate, the BBC’s Jon Donnison reports from Manila.
John Andrews, deputy head of the Civil Aviation Authority, said he had been told of more than 100 bodies around Tacloban airport, with at least 100 more people injured.
Airport manager Efren Nagrama said: “It was like a tsunami. We escaped through the windows and I held on to a pole for about an hour as rain, seawater and wind swept through the airport. Some of my staff survived by clinging to trees.”
Local TV journalists said they had seen 20 bodies in a church in Palo, 10km (six miles) south of Tacloba
As many as 12 million people live in the path of the category five super typhoon, in a region still recovering from the effects of a powerful earthquake which struck last month.
Philippines president Benigno Aquino III has allegedly resorted to using threats of force to remove people living in high-risk areas from their homes in a bid to save lives. It has been reported that many families are reluctant to leave their possessions for fear of looting.
“No typhoon can bring Filipinos to their knees if we’ll be united”, Aquino said in a televised address.
Anna Lindenfors, Save the Children’s director for the Philippines, warned that the charity expects the damage to be “extensive and devastating“.
“Children are going to be particularly affected, swept away in floods, hit by falling debris and separated from their families in the chaos. We expect thousands to be left homeless,” she said.
Meanwhile, Jeff Masters, meteorology director at Weather Underground, said that the damage might prove to be “perhaps the greatest wind damage any city on Earth has endured from a tropical cyclone in the past century”.
Typhoon Haiyan is the 24th tropical storm to hit the Philippines this year alone. The islands lie in the most active typhoon belt on the planet.
After sweeping through the Philippines, the storm will turn towards the South China sea over the weekend. Meteorologists fear that it could gather even more intensity as it approaches the Vietnamese coast.
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Subject: Re: Body bags rushed to devastated areas after typhoon onslaught in the Philippines: death toll feared to be very high Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:16 am
Well, Laibcoms is fine and posting songs and stuff on FB, so we don't have to worry about him anyway. lol
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Subject: Re: Body bags rushed to devastated areas after typhoon onslaught in the Philippines: death toll feared to be very high Sat Nov 09, 2013 12:11 pm
Delfi wrote:
Well, Laibcoms is fine and posting songs and stuff on FB, so we don't have to worry about him anyway. lol
Thanks for that update. I was thinking of him last night wondering if he was OK. I'm feeling better knowing that he is doing fine.
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Subject: Re: Body bags rushed to devastated areas after typhoon onslaught in the Philippines: death toll feared to be very high Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:07 pm
Thx Delfi
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Subject: Re: Body bags rushed to devastated areas after typhoon onslaught in the Philippines: death toll feared to be very high Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:21 pm
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Subject: Vietnam and China prepare for the worst: Army weighs down HOMES to stop them blowing away as country anxiously awaits Typhoon Haiyan, which left 1,200 Filipinos dead and 100,000 homeless Sat Nov 09, 2013 5:48 pm
Vietnam and China prepare for the worst: Army weighs down HOMES to stop them blowing away as country anxiously awaits Typhoon Haiyan, which left 1,200 Filipinos dead and 100,000 homeless
Typhoon Haiyan was a maximum category-five storm with ground winds of up to 235mph
Red Cross today estimates 1,200 people have been killed, 1,000 of those in the city of Tacloban, Leyte
Around four million people are said to have been affected, according to the the country's national disaster agency
Bodies were seen floating in flooded streets with rescue workers saying the aftermath was similar to the 2004 Tsunami
800,000 evacuated before gales whipped up 19ft waves that battered the islands of Leyte and Samar
Storm has now passed majority of the islands and is set to move inland towards Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and China
Hundreds of thousands of people in South East Asia have been evacuated and moved to shelters
170,000 Vietnamese soldiers are brought in as aid agencies predict 6.5 million people will be affected
Britain has pledged £6 million in aid and US Secretary of State John Kerry has said America 'stands ready to help'
UN says 2.5 million people are in need of food aid and UNICEF have estimated 1.5 million children live in affected areas
Weather forecasts have also predicted that high winds and rain could return to the Philippines on Monday
By LIZZIE EDMONDS and WILLS ROBINSON PUBLISHED: 04:59 EST, 9 November 2013 | UPDATED: 18:14 EST, 9 November 2013
One of the most powerful storms on record, Typhoon Haiyan, has killed 1,200 people in the Philippines and left many more injured.
According to the Red Cross, 1,000 have been left dead in the devastated city of Tacloban on the island of Leyte with a further 200 casualties in Samar Province.
About four million people are believed to have been affected by the category five storm, according to the country's national disaster agency. This figure includes 800,000 who had to be evacuated before the storm struck.
Winds of up to 235mph and gusts of 170mph left a trail of destruction - triggering major landslides, knocking out power and communications and causing catastrophic widespread damage. Hundreds of homes have been flattened and scores of streets flooded.
The storm is now moving towards mainland Asian and is expected to reach Vietnam coastal areas on Sunday morning while humanitarian experts estimate the number of casualties will rise considerably.
Weather forecasts have also predicted more bad weather could be on the way to the Philippines at the beginning of next week, with high winds expected to arrive on Monday.
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Operation: A Vietnamese soldier carries a young girl from a lorry as villagers are evacuated to a safe place by the military
Braced: Residents in Phu Yen, Vietnam, prepare sandbags in preparation for the storm which is expected to reach the coast on Sunday morning
Strengthen: Soldiers and workers reinforce a dyke with weather experts predicting sea surges to hit the Vietnamese coast
Bolster: Troops help prepare a house for the arrival of typhoon Haiyan at a village in the central province of Quang Tri
The Foreign Office in the Philippines’ capital Manila has had no reports of British casualties but it is feared thousands have been left stranded as a result.
About 15,000 British nationals are said to live on the islands and every year 65,000 visit tourist hotspots like northern Cebu Province and Boracay Island, both of which have been savaged by the storm.
Vietnamese authorities have begun evacuating 100,000 people as they prepare to face the full force of the ferocious weather. 'The evacuation is being conducted with urgency,' disaster official Nguyen Thi Yen Linh said from central Danang City, where some 76,000 were being moved to safety.
Around 300,000 others have been taken to shelters in the provinces of Quang Ngai, Quang Nam and Thua Thien Hue. Schools were closed and two deputy prime ministers were sent to the region to direct preparations.
The army has been brought in to provide emergency relief with some 170,000 soldiers assisting people after the typhoon hits.
Haiyan is likely to be a category two or three storm when it hits the Vietnamese coast, but the Red Cross has warned some 6.5 million people in in the country could be affected.
It is expected to reach Da Nang province tomorrow morning before moving up the country's west coast and eventually making its way to the capital, Hanoi.
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Subject: Re: Body bags rushed to devastated areas after typhoon onslaught in the Philippines: death toll feared to be very high
Body bags rushed to devastated areas after typhoon onslaught in the Philippines: death toll feared to be very high
Subject: Body bags rushed to devastated areas after typhoon onslaught in the Philippines: death toll feared to be very high 
Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:41 am
Thx Delfi
