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07-11-2013, 11:13 PM | #1 | |||
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Most powerful tropical storm ever recorded expected to hit the Phillipines tomorrow. Probably spell mass damage/lives
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07-11-2013, 11:15 PM | #2 | ||
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From reading that, why on earth would anyone want to live there? A category 5 just 2 months ago, another due now, and 20 storms a year? :S
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07-11-2013, 11:18 PM | #3 | |||
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Yeah I agree Vicky I could never feel safe living in a place like that.
I was watching this on the weather this morning looks big. |
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07-11-2013, 11:23 PM | #4 | |||
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195mph wind speeds, and we were all scared about 80mph the other week
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08-11-2013, 12:30 AM | #5 | |||
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08-11-2013, 04:43 AM | #6 | |||
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Three people are reported to have been killed after the strongest tropical storm of the year, known as Typhoon Haiyan, barrelled into the Philippines.
Among those reported dead are a mother and child who drowned in South Cotabato and a boy who was struck by lightning in Zamboanga City. Thousands of residents have been evacuated from villages in Haiyan's path amid fears the storm damage could be the worst in Philippines' history President Benigno Aquino III assured residents in high-risk areas, including 100 coastal communities, of war-like preparations with three C-130 air force cargo planes and 32 military helicopters and planes on standby, along with 20 navy ships. Residents were warned they would be forcibly evacuated at gunpoint if necessary. "No typhoon can bring Filipinos to their knees if we'll be united," the President Aquino said in a televised address The US Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Centre in Hawaii said Haiyan's maximum sustained winds were 314km per hour (195mph), with gusts up to 379km per hour (235mph). http://news.sky.com/story/1165530/ha...he-philippines |
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08-11-2013, 07:59 AM | #7 | ||
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Poor people
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08-11-2013, 12:42 PM | #8 | |||
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Probably more deaths, but the vast majority seem to have evacuated in time
Regards to why people live there, they probably know nothing better and storms are just part of their routine/life, their family have always lived there, and it might be dirt cheap because of the storms |
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08-11-2013, 12:46 PM | #9 | ||
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And we say are storm was bad
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10-11-2013, 11:12 PM | #10 | |||
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Unconfirmed reports suggest at least 10,000 people are dead in the central Philippines province of Leyte after Typhoon Haiyan hit the region. A senior police official says about 70 to 80 per cent of the province was destroyed by the super storm, one of the most powerful on record. "We had a meeting last night with the governor and the other officials," said regional police director, Chief Superintendent Elmer Soria. "The governor said based on their estimate, 10,000 died." Witnesses and officials described chaotic scenes in Leyte's capital Tacloban, a coastal city of 220,000 about 580 kilometres south-east of Manila, with hundreds of bodies piled on the sides of roads and pinned under wrecked houses. The Red Cross had earlier estimated more than 1,000 people had been killed across the Philippines in the wake of the typhoon, one of the most powerful to make landfall on record. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-1...ietnam/5081524
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10-11-2013, 11:18 PM | #11 | |||
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It's terrible, have got a Filipino aunt who doesn't live there but her family all do, thankfully it wasn't as bad where they live though but was still pretty worrying for them
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10-11-2013, 11:34 PM | #12 | |||
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10-11-2013, 11:34 PM | #13 | |||
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Admittedly I haven't really been watching the news or reading the newspapers but as social media goes I've seen absolutely nothing about this even though it's a big tragedy
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11-11-2013, 12:27 AM | #14 | |||
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1200people dead is horrific news...to me a really big story, but to sky and the BBC it's not a huge story
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11-11-2013, 12:49 AM | #15 | |||
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Must also be due to the fact the economy isn't as great their, and so the coverage isn't as exstensive as it had been in Japan, then you had the nuclear explosion in Japan that made that even worse
and then the one on Boxing day that year was probably as big as it was because it was on Boxing day |
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11-11-2013, 04:50 PM | #16 | |||
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Such an awful disaster
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11-11-2013, 05:01 PM | #17 | |||
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The major problem
for the Filipinos is their homes being made of wood. This will happen Again and Again sadly |
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11-11-2013, 10:56 PM | #18 | |||
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Over 10K sadly dead Last edited by arista; 11-11-2013 at 10:57 PM. |
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12-11-2013, 03:01 AM | #19 | |||
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Seen quite a bit more coverage now. Probably only now realising the scale of it
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12-11-2013, 06:39 AM | #20 | |||
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..there's really quite an 'awakening' picture in the Daily Mail today of a man carrying his daughter to the morgue...two out of five of the dead are children...it's just impossible to imagine...
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12-11-2013, 08:04 AM | #21 | |||
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Yeah, and that's only in one city.. The total death toll is going to be a lot higher!
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12-11-2013, 08:11 AM | #22 | |||
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12-11-2013, 10:18 AM | #23 | |||
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Yeah and there's thousands of people out in really rural areas who still can't be accounted for, just read that there's expected to be another typhoon in 72 hours as well :/
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12-11-2013, 10:29 AM | #24 | |||
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.. it's quite often the (after) one that causes the most devastation as well...terrifying thought...
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13-11-2013, 11:26 PM | #25 | ||
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glad to see the churches are doing their utmost to help....theyre always a great focal point of communal unity and hope, regardless if youre religious....same happens in many crisis and even during world war 2....Churchill used the saving of St Pauls as a beacon of hope and a focal point during those dark days of the terrifying thousand bomber raids....
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