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Post by ghostbuster on Nov 11, 2013 20:49:37 GMT 7
Now another one on the way. They expect it to hit wednesday. Bad to worse.  |
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Post by Denis-NFA on Nov 12, 2013 6:53:27 GMT 7
Now another one on the way. They expect it to hit wednesday. Bad to worse. Fortunately it doesn't look like developing into a typhoon. However it is quite full of moisture and we are expecting torrential rains which brings flooding and landslides. It is actually bucketing down at the moment and at ground level there is barely a breeze so we could have it for some time. |
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Post by chris on Nov 12, 2013 7:12:13 GMT 7
I'd imagine that there would be phone towers and telephone lines down everywhere. I think the real extent will take days+ as there are so many roads to clear plus power poles and lines are smashed. Hey NFA, news is trickling through here incredibly slowly. As usual my relos and friends OS have more updates than we do. I think the dead and missing over 10, 000 is not a hard number, but still could turn out worse. Like on ABS/CBN the news focuses on the relief efforts out of Manila and the US support. |
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Post by hypoman on Nov 12, 2013 19:56:02 GMT 7
just got the power back on today guys.
luckily it missed us by about 40kms.
still reeling after the earthquake, then this...
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Post by Banjo on Nov 13, 2013 6:42:00 GMT 7
Great to hear you are OK mate, we were worrying about you and your family.
You have a busy time ahead of you now.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Nov 13, 2013 7:51:19 GMT 7
You might find this post from facebook interesting....
RE-POST NOTE : Personal account of a person who survived the Typhoon (he does not want his name posted) in his own words.
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i wont be posting my whole experience as theres always some people who think they know better. But i do want to make things clear so you would have an idea what its really like being there.
1. Tacloban prepared for Yolanda, to say that they didn't because of the their casualty number is a bit disappointing. They had families already relocated in designated evacuation centers even before the storm it was just sad that those places were destroyed as well.
2. Dont go on thinking you know better by saying they should have left the seaside. Im not enitrely sure but even near the heart of the city there are sandwiched cars my guess is the water went as far as there when it hit.
3. Step down your high horse from time to time. Dont be so quick to judge looters, i was looter. I looted medecine for the red cross, milk and food for the children. Walked 4 hours and dug into 2 foot empty plastic bottles to get at least something to drink and bring back some. The people who took flat screen tv's were the same people who offered to give me a drink and some lugaw. Those who looked like ex-convicts offered me something to eat. Almost all the time they are willing to lend a hand when you said you really need something. What they didnt show on the news was how people were helping each other amidst the catastrophe.
4. These tv personalities and politicians majority are a piece of shit. Mar Roxas and his body guards never helped us retrieve families trapped on the cottages on the hotel that we were staying or assisted in helping the wounded. They just walked around clean tidy as if they couldnt be bothered. Ted Failon ate a hearty meal while some children barely had anything to eat and slept in comfy beds while children slept on marble floors. Love Anover panicked and asked us to go downtown to get military assistance like they were someone special. You dont hear those on the news do you? its all about what was recorded on the shot.
5. It might look like chaos i guess thats what they want to show you, but there are police patrols, i personally went to the police station and ask about the rumors of hostility, they told us that its not true as they have not received any news about it. dont think for once that they are not doing their jobs, their manpower is spread so thin why? Because some of them are dead.
6. Dont for once think that everyone hungry is hostile. Dont you dare think like "oh im trained, oh i have seen this happen somewhere, oh its going to happen here" its not a movie. People just want someone to talk to, hear their story ask them how they are, i found out that listening to what they have to say helps them and it helps you.
7. There are no zombies. You can talk to the people sometimes you would be surprised as to how they can help and how much they are willing to help.
8. No one is special. You might have the best training, equipment, plans or what have you. At the end of the day youre one of them, you are in the same situation as them, to think otherwise. Is i think quite foolish.
9. To think its always going to be this way is foolish as well. Im counting 3 to 4 days if relief and resources cant make it, it will be chaotic.
10. Ego is useless.
The more you find, the less you lose... find something in each person that you meet.
I am no expert, again theres going to be someone here who has tons of things to say because of his knowledge or expertise. This is what i experienced, im not a victim nor a survivor, but for 5 days i was a citizen of Tacloban.
This will be my last post about what happened.
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Post by chris on Nov 13, 2013 8:56:59 GMT 7
Thanks NFA, it's a personal anecdote, so I will not be overly judgemental.
4. These tv personalities and politicians majority are a piece of shit. Mar Roxas and his body guards never helped us retrieve families trapped on the cottages on the hotel that we were staying or assisted in helping the wounded. They just walked around clean tidy as if they couldnt be bothered. Ted Failon ate a hearty meal while some children barely had anything to eat and slept in comfy beds while children slept on marble floors. Love Anover panicked and asked us to go downtown to get military assistance like they were someone special. You dont hear those on the news do you? its all about what was recorded on the shot.
Roxas is a probable future President and husband of a news anchor. I'm not sure what he or his body guards could have done personally, I'm willing to let it pass.
Ted Faillon was there on assignment working. He's a highly regarded newsman and he was there doing his job at times under extreme difficulty, again he gets the pass.
Other celebs...yes they dramatacise everything.
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Post by Banjo on Nov 13, 2013 9:18:13 GMT 7
I would imagine it would have been mainly about photo ops, a common practice with our own politicians. What ever happened to Natasha Stott Despoja any way?  |
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Post by ghostbuster on Nov 13, 2013 9:56:49 GMT 7
More good news, my g/f sister just text and all family are ok and house is intact. Good stuff. Mountain saved them.
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Post by Banjo on Nov 13, 2013 10:32:01 GMT 7
Great news Ghostie.
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Post by itsmylife08 on Nov 13, 2013 13:51:55 GMT 7
10. Ego is useless.
The more you find, the less you lose... find something in each person that you meet.
Good post NFA how true
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Post by ghostbuster on Nov 13, 2013 14:06:48 GMT 7
News i just received...prisoners from Tacloban jail(about 700 of them) have escaped and now looting, killing and rapeing. If they don`t have enough grief to deal with now that these morons are on the loose. God help the poor souls that have to deal with one catastrophie after another.
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Post by chris on Nov 13, 2013 15:25:06 GMT 7
More good news, my g/f sister just text and all family are ok and house is intact. Good stuff. Mountain saved them. Fantastic news ghostbuster. |
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Post by chris on Nov 13, 2013 15:26:46 GMT 7
News i just received...prisoners from Tacloban jail(about 700 of them) have escaped and now looting, killing and rapeing. If they don`t have enough grief to deal with now that these morons are on the loose. God help the poor souls that have to deal with one catastrophie after another. Gosh really (surely that's exaggerated, looting for food for survival has been going on unchecked yes). Going home to watch the nightly news, back here in AM. |
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Post by ghostbuster on Nov 14, 2013 0:00:05 GMT 7
I am so sorry to have alarmed anyone but that report i got was over stated.Only about 10 or so escaped so thankfully it is not as bad as i thought. I got that report straight from Tacloban and not happy that i was given bad info.
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