- wil wrote:
- Could it be possible those beams are only reflections from the camera lens? I have lived in the Philippines for many years and we have like 20 or so typhoons every year, the bigger ones usually come in Nov. The typhoons start coming around July to Dec, it coincides with the monsoon season. This weather cycle has been going on for centuries, the last one happens to be a monster size. I'm a bit skeptical it could be humanly manipulated... just my thinking.
All things aside, this became the worst in our country because of the following:
1) The "typhoon belt" (as we call it) shifted South. It was us in the National Capital Region and Central Luzon that gets hit by typhoons back in the 80s and 90s, even super typhoons.
Late 90s to early 2000, the El Niño almost terminated typhoons in the Philippines. Then there was La Niña, then El Niño, then La Niña again, and so on.
When things settled down, the typhoons were rarely passing by the NCR and Centra Luzon. If it passes Luzon, it's too far north, almost near Taiwan. The usual hit turned to Visayas and Mindanao.
In fact, a few years ago, Metro Davao (one of the key and larges metropolitan area in Mindanao - way, way, South) was directly hit by a typhoon -
for the first time. They never had any experience, it was their first.
That's how much things changed.
So imagine, a super typhoon hitting Visayas and Mindanao regions, that never had an extensive experience on typhoons, much less super typhoons. Visayas especially is mostly small islands, with less mountains. Compare that to Luzon where there are a lot of maintain rangers and high-rise buildings.
2) This also showed the huge gap between Luzon and the other two regions - Visayas and Mindanao. Since we have more experience in getting hit by super typhoons, we of course adapted to it. Sadly, for Visayas, they never had any chance to adapt, and they mostly have open fields.
3) As much as prepared we were, we do not have experience for things of this magnitude. Honestly speaking, of my 32 years of living here in the Philippines, this is the worst calamity and disaster I have seen.
What hit Visayas was so different from when super typhoons hit the capital region, and I have memories of Signal #4 or Category 4/5 storms. Watching the videos unnerved even me. I can not even tell you if the mountains surrounding the capital region would be enough to weaken Yolanda.
Yes, that is correct, we get hit by typhoons a lot. But that was Luzon, not Visayas. They were not prepared for this. They were not built for this. Sadly, the whole Nation is not ready for this.
We do not have emergency lines installed, just like what you have there in the US. We never needed one, until now, when all cell towers were toppled.
We do not have emergency government replacement or takeovers, just like what you always practice there in the US. - Tacloban for example, the Local Government Unit is virtually non-existent or paralyzed. No one wants to man key agencies because they themselves are fighting to survive and take care of their families. We do not have a system in place to replace them in an instant - and this is a serious issue currently.
And other things.
We may have contributed in other things, and helped other nations where we have the most experience, but this time, we're the least experienced.
Of course, you wouldn't hear this from our government. But if you can only see what ordinary people like us can see, you'll know what and where we are lacking.
So, HAARP, microwave, or whatever, natural or not, typhoons in our country went South - mostly. That itself is not normal. Never normal.
Subject: ALERT !! Philippine Typhoon MANIPULATED SEE UPDATE 11-11-2013 
Sun Nov 10, 2013 9:20 am
