Latest reports on FOX say that ALL COMMUNICATIONS are down. Even family members are not able to find or communicate with each other.
Heard from a friend, not a FReeper, this morning. The storm missed him by 100 miles.
Not true. Some northern areas remained unscathed and calls to the Philippines have gotten through there.
Both reporting hot with maybe a little wind, no rain
I think we've been misled by reporting and a scarey map.
A typhoon is a cyclone (same thing, different name), and we know a cyclone can rip up the street and leave one side of houses virtually untouched and the other side has vanished.
Noy Noy Aquino, the Philippine President forced evacuation of about a million people that were in the direct path of Yolanda's proposed path and he had emergency supplies shipped to the areas that will be effected, before Yolanda hit.
I'm glad all our expat FreepeRs are OK, but as we knmow, Alex was supposed to be in a dangerous area and he went to a hotel. Upon returning he said he found everything OK and was a little surprized.
I think we'll probably find the deaths were the ones that refused to leave when they were told to evacuate.