Articles tagged with: Super Typhoon Yolanda
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 …
Video – A Walk Around Grounded Ships in Tacloban
Many large ships were blown ashore during super typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan in Tacloban. I went for a walk around a couple of these ships one day and shot this video.
Super Typhoon Yolanda Destruction in Tacloban
These photos were all taken in and around the city of Tacloban on the island of Leyte in the Philippines nearly two months after super typhoon Yolanda struck on November 8, 2013. By this point, much of the debris had been removed from the shoreline communities and streets and people had begun rebuilding their homes and communities. The houses along the shoreline were a mixture …
Finally Leaving Tacloban and Heading for Cebu
Monday January 27, 2014
4:40 a.m. Carigara, Leyte, Philippines
Marupoy Hotel, Room 17
Small room about ten feet by ten feet. A single bed, a small picnic table, a locked wardrobe with old magazines on top, a window, a fan, a needlework piece of art on the wall of a seagull flying over a mountain stream and the phrase “There’s a reason for life” at the bottom. Done …
Mango Shake at Alejandro’s
Much as it pains me to say it, it is raining heavily outside. It has been raining all night, and my first task of the day was to push the floodwater into the bathroom. The floodwater is currently rebuilding. I’m also vaguely ill. Worrying facts of life in post-typhoon Tacloban.First day of the new year was not exactly a barn burner. I slept until 11 …
Newspaper Article about Body ID at Suhi
Not to be a broken record, but it rained – hard – all last night. I woke up to a flooded room again and my first task was to take a towel and clean up. There is always so much water that I can’t just mop up the water. I use the towel like a squeegee and push waves of water toward the bathroom. Luckily, …