Articles tagged with: barangay
Video Post: Rebuilding After Super Typhoon Yolanda
I shot this video on December 7, 2013, one month after super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). I was walking through what was left of the shoreline barangay of Seawall in Tacloban City. When I first saw this area after the typhoon, there was literally nothing left. The entire community – save for one or two concrete structures – had been washed away by the storm surge …
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 …
Day Ten – Super Typhoon Yolanda
The rain let up a little bit in the afternoon yesterday, and I went out for a walk. I was interested in going to City Hall to see what was going on there. I kept hearing more and more about City Hall and it seemed that, short of a trip out to the airport, this was the place to go to see what is happening.
The …
Day Nine – Super-Typhoon Yolanda
It rained again throughout the night and the morning yesterday. That kept me in and around the pension house. When the sky cleared in the early afternoon, I finally set off with my camera to explore the other side of the Tacloban shoreline and make my way up to the Astrodome.
The streets with their piles of debris and mud and trees and vehicles and furniture …
Pet Peeves and a World of Junk
It rained a great deal during the night and the morning sky looks grey and overcast in the narrow views I get from my windows. Not great prospects for the day, but the weather could improve.
The karaoke never started up again last night, and I will be eternally grateful for that. I really should work on my attitude, though, and knock off the passive-aggressive routine. …
Photo Walkabout and Karaoke Horror
It’s 6:30 p.m., an unusual time for me to fire up the NEO, but I have been ambushed by the horror of the Philippines once more: karaoke. I don’t know how people in this country can live like this. I find the tension is like living on top of an armed nuclear weapon. You never know when the darn thing will go off. It can …
Marabut, Legaspi, and Musings on Hotels
I needn’t have worried about the clear skies disappearing yesterday. The skies stayed clear and blue and beautiful all day long. It was probably the nicest day I’ve had in the Philippines combined with some of the nicest scenery.
Taking my bucket bath and packing up in my unusual room went without many problems. I was running out of water in my big barrel, and I …
Street Dancing in Lawaan
Yesterday was quite an unusual day weatherwise. It started off clear and beautiful. I grabbed my camera and walked down to the waterfront and along the river and nearby neighborhoods. I got some great pictures of mothers swimming in the water with their young children, teaching them to swim in fact. This was out at the end of a very long cement pier. I wasn’t …