Articles tagged with: typhoon
Day 44 Super Typhoon Yolanda – The Story of Elvis
Yesterday, was definitely what you would call a sick day. I didn’t leave the pension house the entire day and never strayed very far from the bathroom. I ate nothing the entire day, which is my usual treatment for this. I have no idea if it actually starves the bacteria out, but at least not eating denies my digestive system anything with which to make …
Day 40 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Bike Ride to Tanauan
Tuesday December 17, 2013
Day 41 Typhoon Yolanda
– Got on my bike and set off with my camera; intended to go to the coast road on the way out to the MacArthur memorial; on the way, I ran into the firefighters and Amy; I stopped and hung out for a little while as they did their work; the main site was a grassy, swampy, marshy, muddy …
Day 38 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Mass Grave at Basper
It’s Sunday, the worst day of the week by far. I say that because they take this “day of rest” thing seriously in the Philippines, and it is the one day of the week when I always have trouble finding food and water and other things. Stores and restaurants are closed, and after the typhoon, it will be even worse.It was raining quite heavily in …
Day 37 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Mass Grave at Basper, a Concert, and Mosquito Torment
The very first thing I did this morning (after taking a bucket bath, shaving, and battling mosquitoes) was to remove the back cover from my broken Kindle. The battery finally went dead, so I couldn’t use it to listen to music anymore. And I don’t want to throw the entire Kindle away as it is. If, by some miracle, someone were to fix it, they …
Day 36 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Odd Encounters in Seawall
It’s already the 13th of December, perilously close to Christmas. I was thinking that since it is so close, I might as well stay here in Tacloban for Christmas. In a strange twist, the typhoon has meant that I now know more people in the city of Tacloban than in most places on the planet. I already have two invitations to spend Christmas with families. …
Day 35 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Bike Ride and Taking Photos
12:30 p.m.The day began with another flurry of text messages. People here seem to have a routine of greeting the new day by texting a good morning message to everyone on their contact list. So I got a few of those. And then I got a bunch from this odd duck Joevelyn and then some from May and then from a mystery number. I have …
Day 34 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Getting Sick, Bike Ride to the Bus Station
Yesterday included another walk to the harbor to check on the navy ship. Marie, my main contact, was at the gangway shack this time and I was glad to see her. However, it didn’t make any difference. She wasn’t very friendly this time – probably tired of seeing me – and she had no information about when the ship might be leaving to go to …
Day 33 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Hospitality Prisoner
An unusual day yesterday. A somewhat stressful one. It started out with a walk from the pension house to Mark’s house. I wanted to use their computer to copy some pictures and clear up a memory card or two. Without a memory card, I can’t do any more photography. Unfortunately, when I got there, I found the entire house empty and disturbingly quiet. Then one …