Latest reports on FOX say that ALL COMMUNICATIONS are down. Even family members are not able to find or communicate with each other.
Art Bell has moved back to Pahrump.
Was a strong Cat 4. Nasty with potentially a few thousand lost due to flooding, but not the worst ever. The faulty reported astronomical wind speed was taken from a satellite and measured in the upper regions of the storm. Not near ground level. For some stupid reason the MSM ran with the faulty wind speed. The Philippine government reported top wind speed of 147 mph. Most places hit hard experienced 100 mph winds. The 147 mph was most intense average wind speed at landfall.
Mark17 is in California. Missed the storm.
I’m skeptical that the estimate of 10,000 is going to be high enough. Most of these communities that were wiped out, and that haven’t been accessed yet are on the coast, and are subsistence fishing communities.
Families there don’t have their own cars, for the most part. They get around by bus, jeepney or trikes. I doubt these places that appear to have been wiped out were completely evacuated.
I’m thinking the 10,000 estimate is way low.
AlexW just posted that he’s online and available to answer questions.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3089596/posts?page=66#63
I have a friend I graduated from high school with in Arizona in 1966 who is an expatriate living on south Cebu Island near Bato in the Philippines. He just emailed me and said they got a lot of rain and the power was out for a while, but things are pretty much back to normal where he’s at. They just had a typhoon last week too and an earthquake before that. He must be blessed because there was no damage to his home and no injuries to anyone he knows.
I have one friend in Manilla who is OK. I have another in Tacloban who is a minister. I have no report at all on his status.
My wife’s family lives in the Labangon part of Cebu City. Central Cebu had high winds and a lot of rain. They have downed trees and power lines but is mostly okay. We have talked to them on the phone several times since the storm passed Cebu.
One of our friends has family in northern Leyte. She called today to let us know that her family is okay.
My brother lives in Calbayog and he and his family are okay. The only power if from small generators and fuel is hard to get but the neighborhood is okay. Folks in the Philippines are used to power outages even good weather.
I heard 147 mph winds, top, too, AND that the Global Warming folks were saying ‘worst storm in the entire universe’ to make sure that folks connected it to Global Warming. Also that it was Cat 4.
I hate lying lefties.
Another TV link for live coverage:
http://www.tv5.com.ph/live
Where can you bug out to on an archipelago?
You can head for higher ground, but that’s about it.
He is fine. I face time with him every day. His area was not affected by it.
I have a sneaky feeling that the U.S. sending 1 aircraft carrier, 2 cruisers, 2 destroyers and 2 supply ships under the guise of humanitarian aid is actually a disguised show of force.........