Articles tagged with: typhoon
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 …
Video – A Walk through Typhoon Yolanda Aftermath
I shot this video simply by holding my camera at my waist and walking – as best I could – through an area long the shore of Tacloban city. This entire are used to be nothing but houses, but they were almost all destroyed by the typhoon and accompanying storm surge. I shot the video on Deceber 8, 2013, a full month after the typhoon …
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 …
The Parade of Idiocy Continues
Saturday February 1, 2014
6:15 a.m. Cebu City, Philippines
Room 406 Hallmark Hotel
An account of yesterday will, unfortunately, sound much like the accounts of all my days in Cebu. I went to shopping malls and couldn’t find the things I was looking for. But there were variations, so here I go:
I was up quite early, and I went out into Cebu to get something to eat. Unfortunately, …
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 …