Supertyfoon Haiyan (cat.5) treft de Filipijnen: Duizenden doden

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Op zaterdag 9 november 2013 08:20 schreef aloa het volgende:
Er komen nu berichten dat er 100 doden zijn. Kan nog verder oplopen.

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First off, Tacloban City is devastated. The city is a horrid landscape of smashed buildings and completely defoliated trees, with widespread looting and unclaimed bodies decaying in the open air. The typhoon moved fast and didn't last long-- only a few hours-- but it struck the city with absolutely terrifying ferocity. At the height of the storm, as the wind rose to a scream, as windows exploded and as our solid-concrete downtown hotel trembled from the impact of flying debris, as pictures blew off the walls and as children became hysterical, a tremendous storm surge swept the entire downtown. Waterfront blocks were reduced to heaps of rubble. In our hotel, trapped first-floor guests smashed the windows of their rooms to keep from drowning and screamed for help, and we had to drop our cameras and pull them out on mattresses and physically carry the elderly and disabled to the second floor. Mark's leg was ripped open by a piece of debris and he'll require surgery. The city has no communication with the outside world. The hospitals are overflowing with the critically injured. The surrounding communities are mowed down. After a bleak night in a hot, pitch-black, trashed hotel, James, Mark, and I managed to get out of the city on a military chopper and get to Cebu via a C-130-- sitting next to corpses in body bags. Meteorologically, Super Typhoon HAIYAN was fascinating; from a human-interest standpoint, it was utterly ghastly. It's been difficult to process.

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Op zaterdag 9 november 2013 10:09 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Laatste tweet zegt ook niet veel goeds. "going out to film - be back in a bit"

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Op zaterdag 9 november 2013 11:15 schreef Perrin het volgende:
https://twitter.com/typhoonfury

Manman die laatste berichten. Dit gaat oplopen naar tienduizenden doden en honderdduizenden gewonden en daklozen

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Typhoon aftermath: "Like a tsunami"

The first international reporter has reached Tacloban City and reports it looks like a tsunami hit the area. Communications are down throughout most of the storm affected areas , but damage is expected to be massive from Typhoon Haiyan.

As the sun goes down in Tacloban City in Leyte, CNN's Andrew Stevens reports that the situation is increasingly desperate there. There is massive damage, food, water and medicine are in short supply, roads are impassable and little aid has been able to get through. Only helicopters are bringing in supplies. Looting, too, has become a problem and there are unconfirmed reports of shooting, Stevens says.

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Op zaterdag 9 november 2013 09:55 schreef Olga het volgende:

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De doortocht van tyfoon Haiyan, een van de zwaarste van de afgelopen decennia, heeft op de Filipijnen honderden dodelijke slachtoffers gemaakt. De Filipijnse minister van Energie Jericho Petilla spreekt over "honderden doden" in de oostelijke kuststad Palo en omgeving. In Tacloban, een havenstad in het centrum van het land, vielen "minstens honderd doden". Dat hebben de autoriteiten meegedeeld. "Er is wellicht 80 procent van de stad verwoest", zo zegt Bernd Schell van het Rode Kruis Duitsland vanuit Manilla.