Yikes!
They were talking about a bad storm there two years ago there that killed over a thousand people....this thing has winds two and a half times that one, so one can only imagine how devastating this is going to be.
is there anything live about it
The situation in parts of Mindano is horrific. I saw this on storm2k.org (taken by the poster from Facebook):
To all my friends who have a good heart: Our hometown in Cateel, Davao Oriental is severely devastated by TYPHOON PABLO, it's beyond words to describe the damage. Victims describe it as the end of the world. It is located 30 minute drive from the site of typhoon Pablo landfall. We all lost our homes, we have not accounted completely all our immediate families. No structures can serve as evacuation center as all buildings are severely wrecked and damaged including among others churches, hospitals and schools. Casualties to date is 56 and is increasing. Injured persons are lying in the streets. Roads going inside the town are un-passable making rescue and relief efforts very hard. People now are starving with no place to go. Electricity and cellfon sites are severely damaged making communication very difficult. No media group has ever entered the town. It has been isolated for more that 30 hours already. Im knocking on you hearts to pls HELP my family and kababayans in my hometown of Cateel, Davao Oriental. WE need among others clean water, ready to eat food, clothes, shelter and medicines, toiletries. I hope the authorities will mobilize quickly to get inside the town. We need you. HELP us pls!!! Oh LORD GOD..pls help us....People are starving
Of family we have heard from, most are ok. One of my wife's cousins had some livestock drowned, another says her house (which only got water "near" in the storm thak killed over 1000 last year) is "a submarine". Another cousin was right in the path of the eyewall, but a little inland - we have not heard anything of him & so we are quite worried...