Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines destruction 'absolute bedlam'

[theHandpuppet]

Source: BBC News

(Excerpt)

The exposed easterly town of Guiuan, Samar province - population 40,000 - is said to be largely destroyed

Tacloban, Leyte province, was largely flattened by a massive storm surge and scores of corpses are piled by the roadside, leaving a stench in the air as they rot, say correspondents. Hundreds of people have gathered at the airport desperate for food and water, others trying to get a flight out

Disaster worker Dennis Chong told the BBC that assessments in the far north of Cebu province had shown some towns had suffered "80-90% damage"

Baco, a city of 35,000 in Oriental Mindoro province, was 80% under water, the UN said....

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24894529

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You really have to read the whole article and view the photos to get even some idea of the widespread devastation. It's hard to wrap your mind around it.... a living nightmare.

[theHandpuppet]

1. Link to another article

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/typhoon-haiyan-survivors-plead-help

[TomCADem]

2. The Typhoon Was More Powerful and Possibly More Deadline Than Katrina

The MSM fails to hold Republican climate change deniers accountable for their years of insistence that there was no such thing as climate change.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/world/asia/philippines-storm-surge-leaves-scenes-of-devastation.html?google_editors_picks=true&_r=0

Shattered buildings line every road of this once-thriving city of 220,000, and many of the streets are still so clogged with debris from nearby buildings that they are barely discernible. The civilian airport terminal here has shattered walls and gaping holes in the roof where steel beams protrude, twisted and torn by winds far more powerful than those of Hurricane Katrina when it made landfall near New Orleans in 2005.

Decomposing bodies still lie along the roads, like the corpse in a pink, short-sleeved shirt and blue shorts facedown in a puddle 100 yards from the airport. Just down the road lies a church that was supposed to be an evacuation center but is littered with the bodies of those who drowned inside.

The top civil defense official of the Philippines said in an interview after inspecting the damage that the storm surge had been the highest in the country’s modern history. The sea level rose 10 to 13 feet and filled streets and homes deep in the city, propelled by sustained winds of at least 140 miles per hour and gusts that were far stronger.

“It was a tsunami-like storm surge, it is the first time,” said Eduardo del Rosario, the executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, in an interview after inspecting the damage here. Tacloban has been hit by typhoons for decades, but never before had the sea risen high enough to pour over the swath of low salt marshes and inundate the city’s shady streets, he said.

[PatrynXX]

3. I'm sure there was a deadline to meet but think you meant Deadly n/t still sad. photo's never age