Anyone have anymore info or an update about the Phillipines today?
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Hope your folks are safe 
Response to gopiscrap (Original post)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/10/typhoon-haiyan-dead-aid
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The coastal city of 222,000 inhabitants bore the brunt of 195mph winds as the strongest storm ever recorded tore off roofs and destroyed evacuation centres.
But with the typhoon having swept across a number of cities – one Filipino official said the storm "island-hopped" – Tacloban is just one town among many that will have to be rebuilt from scratch. If the death toll is as high as is feared, Haiyan could emerge as the deadliest natural catastrophe in the Philippines' history.
More than 350,000 people are awaiting supplies in 1,220 evacuation centres, with 4.3 million people across the country affected by Haiyan, said Orla Fagan of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha).
Rescue teams deployed in Bogo city and San Remigio, on the island of Cebu, said some buildings have been flattened, with significant damage to both homes and sugar plantations, which have served as many residents' primary source of income in this agricultural area.
UN teams have been dispatched to the areas south and north of Tacloban and to Iloilo, to the west of Leyte and Samar islands, to assess the damage there.
"We haven't been to the west of the Visayan islands yet so we have no idea what's gone on there," Fagan said. "We could be replicating what happened in Tacloban."
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although they have the wind speed wrong in the article heading.
WARNING Graphic photos
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2496954/Starvation-fear-land-laid-waste-typhoon-At-10-000-dead-2000mph-winds-smash-Philippines.html
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