November 11, 2013

Super Typhoon Haiyan

Super Typhoon Haiyan  blows over Pacific Ocean & Philippines 

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 A digital composite of Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines

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  Typhoon Haiyan taken by Astronaut Karen L. Nyberg aboard the Internatioal Space Station

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 Satellite picture of Super typhoon Haiyan posted on Twitter by NASA 

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 Residents of  Albay province, south of Manila,were forced to flee the coast as Typhoon Haiyan approached


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Red Cross states that 1,000 of the 1,200 people were killed by the typhoon were residents of Tacloban


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Before & After : Tacloban bore the full force of the winds and the tsunami-like storm surges
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 Devastation left by typhoon Haiyan in Guiuan, Eastern Samar province, central Philippines

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 Acres of flooded rice fields in the Iloilo Province, another area devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan

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Destroyed houses on Victory Island  in Eastern Samar province, central Philippines


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Surivors in Tacloban  are so desperate for food that they have been forced to loot shops and steal from the dead

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 Estimates of 10,000 dead d might be low. The dead, decomposing and stinking, litter the streets or are buried in the debris

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Devastation in some parts has been total