Articles tagged with: typhoon
Super-Typhoon Yolanda – My First Three Days
On Nov 8, 2013, super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) hit the town of Tacloban in the Philippines. I was in Tacloban at the time, and my hotel was hit with a storm surge ten feet deep. This is the first part of the journal I kept through the experience.
Cycling to Guiuan, Samar
I didn’t have a chance to see my hostess from the hotel of videoke horror before I left. As I went downstairs to take a shower in the common bathroom and such things, I had to pass the kitchen, and though many people said good morning to me, it seemed that my hostess was avoiding me. I couldn’t really blame her. In the cold light …