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.
Both reporting hot with maybe a little wind, no rain
I think we've been misled by reporting and a scarey map.
What are you trying to say? It wasn't too bad? Try to imagine a snake in the road that gets run over. Your SIL says the head looks fine, your momma says no problem here at the tail, but they don't go look at the middle.
Now I'm seeing on FR some are saying TV stations are reporting 55 dead, as if the death loss is greatly inflated. The official government count now is 1774 dead and rising.
http://www.rappler.com/nation/43462-ndrrmc-death-toll-monday
My wife's family is on a farm about 10 miles north of Tacloban and we still haven't heard a word from them. Her dad has a concrete house and a hill behind it so I hope that helped some.
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.
Those evacuations consisted of moving the squatters and most exposed people from their huts to schools or churches, and many of those were also destroyed. It's not like they moved one million people 500 miles.
Carry on, I'll get back to trying to find word on her parents and brothers and sisters and their kids.