I admit it. This picture was taken a few years ago, but I think I still look vaguely like that. Depends on the day (and the time of day). And today, just before I uploaded this picture, an Indonesian English student told me how much she liked my nose. I heard that a lot in Indonesia. Apparently, a large nose like mine is a good …
Read the full story »Video Post: Copra Warehouse District after Typhoon Yolanda
In downtown Tacloban, there is a street with a number of copra warehouses. The street in this video runs alongside the harbor and is the back entrance to many of these warehouses. The cement walls of those buildings collapsed and resulted in all the rubble. The video was shot on December 7, 2013, about one month after the typhoon struck. Many of the streets in …
Video Post: Typhoon Yolanda Damage in Panpango, Tacloban
This part of Tacloban City faces across the bay toward San Jose and the airport. As such, it was directly in line with the storm surge and the strong winds of the typhoon. Most of the houses along the shoreline were completely destroyed and the debris from those houses was carried up to the street that follows the shore. For a long time, the street …
Video Post: Upturned Cars/Trucks after Super Typhoon Yolanda
I remember when watching the videos from the tsunami in Japan that I was surprised at the large number of cars and trucks and vans floating and bobbing on the water. Common sense might dictate that vehicles are very heavy and would be difficult to move. However, modern vehicles are tightly sealed and with all the air inside them act like floating bottles or ships …
Video Post: Super Typhoon Yolanda Aftermath in Anibong
I shot this video while walking along the main road that goes along Seawall and Anibong in Tacloban City. I shot it on December 7, 2013, a month after the typhoon struck. For quite a long time after the typhoon, it was impossible to walk down this street. It was completely blocked by debris to a depth of as much as fifteen feet. It took …
Video Post: Super Typhoon Yolanda – Ships Blown Aground
Many large ocean-going ships were blown ashore in Tacloban by super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), which hit the Philippines on November 8, 2013. The sight of these ships and the destruction around them was so compelling that I returned to this area many times to take pictures. On this day, I hit the video button on my camera and let it run as I – very …
Video Post: Anibong after Super Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan
This is a barangay called Anibong in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines. Before super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), this area was crowded with small houses made of either wood or cement with galvanized tin roofing. The houses were built on stilts over the water between cement walls that had been constructed out over the water from shore. These cement walls – a type of seawall or pier construction …
Video Post – Airport Road in Tacloban after Yolanda
This video shows a bit of the destruction caused by super typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan along the road leading out to the airport in Tacloban. I was sitting on the top of a firetruck at the time with a team of firefighters. It was their job to go out and collect bodies. The team I was with that day collected 72 bodies. At the end of the …
