“The reports are so heartbreaking.”
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Yes they are, but we must also be thankful that the disaster was limited in area affected. We must, however, remember in our prayers the people of Leyte that were so torn by the devastation.
According to Wiki, over 100,000 deaths would bring it close to one of the top 10 deadliest natural disasters since 1900. And the 3rd deadliest of this century behind the 2004 tsunami and 2010 Haiti earthquake.
And it’s apparently at least the 8th deadliest “cyclone” in recorded history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll#Ten_deadliest_tropical_cyclones
Of course I misread the 10,000 in the article as 100,000. Sorry for the error.
With 10,000 deaths, the storm would be the deadliest natural disaster in the Philippines in recorded history. The previous biggest was a 1976 tsunami with up to 8,000 deaths. The next biggest was flooding from a tropical storm which sounds like it was in a region near to the areas affected today, in 1991, killing 5,100.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/72810/the-philippines-ten-deadliest-natural-disasters
I am glad to hear you came out all right. It must be a difficult situation all around.