ONGOING UPDATES ADDED TO THIS PAGE: THIS IS NOW THE MOST INTENSE TYPHOON TO MAKE LANDFALL IN HISTORY WITH 230MPH GUSTS MADE LANDFALL ON THE PHILIPPINES COAST FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER 2013… THINK OF PEOPLE THERE AND HOPE THEY ARE MAKING THEMSELVES SAFE.
STORM STATS TO DATE…(10/11/2013) President declares “state of national calamity”
Latest 15/11/2013 PH Gvt website and BBC 5000 dead; 3853 injured; 921,000 displaced; 243,000 homes destroyed
At least 2 million families (11.8 million people) in 51 cities; 1444 evacuation centres. Estimated $4billion damages to PH
http://www.humanityroad.org/situation-report
LATEST FROM BBC NEWS
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24878801
This page has essentially become a chronological scrap-blog of emerging information from the pre-storm warnings to the immediate post-disaster phase. Scroll down for maps, sat pics, videos and photos and links as they were forthcoming during the storm. Live information from web sources including twitter and facebook direct from chase teams and embedded weather journalists as well as local Philippino sources traversed by the eye wall are included. This video was shot for CNN by storm chaser James Reynolds @typhoonfury who went to Tacloban knowing the eye wall would cross directly over.
This is an historic tropical cyclone: a truly huge storm and the strongest in recorded history with devastating impacts emerging from the areas hit by the hurricane eye, such as Tacloban City, Leyte and S Samar. (Typhoon Tip was the previous record breaking strongest storm). Several extreme storm chasers and journalists embedded themselves into the path of the EYE WALL including James Reynolds @typhoonfury and Jim Edds @ExtremeStorms bringing up-close and personal stories of the true horrifying nature of the storm and the terrible aftermath now unfolding.
(LIVE now a recording offline COVERAGE OF LANDFALL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrEVLCbAfys&app=desktop)
LIVE BBC COVERAGE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCiYEBAooZo
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/08/typhoon-haiyan-batters-philippines
https://www.facebook.com/iCyclone
A major super typhoon with winds gusting more than 200mph has emerged out of the NW Pacific and is on track to cross the Philippines at the end of this week. With 175 mph sustained maximum winds this is the most powerful storm this year and, were it an Atlantic Hurricane, it would be about the most powerful on record. Although it will weaken slightly when it crosses land, it is still an exceptionally dangerous storm and a great threat because the Philippines is a densely populated country and, while the capital Manila will not receive a direct hit, some 10 million people in Luzon are in the area predicted for Haiyan to make first landfall. The storm is then predicted to track rapidly across to Vietnam where it will arrive on Sunday, possibly still as a strong typhoon.
Update: poss most powerful landfall typhoon ever: off the NOAA Dvorak instensity scale http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/CI-chart.html
It was a FAST moving storm and the eye passed over Guiuan district and Tacloban City in just a few hours but the impact was immense.
“The typhoon moved fast and didn’t last long– only a few hours– but it struck the city with absolutely terrifying ferocity.”
The last tweet from storm journalist Jim Edds in Tacloban was sent just before the eye wall hit and then..nothing. He and other extreme film makers were reported safe and evacuated later
981.4 mb at 6:05am, going out to shoot. Be back in a bit.
— Jim Edds (@ExtremeStorms) November 7, 2013
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/super-typhoon-haiyan-a-serious/19561621
http://news.sky.com/story/1165530/super-typhoon-haiyan-hits-the-philippines
IF the typhoon had passed over Europe… how big would it be?
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html
Instagram videos of destruction in Tacloban http://instagram.com/macmaloon
http://www.rappler.com/nation/43285-initial-reports-damage-tacloban-city
http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/super-typhoon-haiyan-latest-news-20131108?hootPostID=de00db08af5507b1944839bc6c86d92a
http://www.westernpacificweather.com/2013/11/08/typhoon-haiyan-photo-and-video-gallery/
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/11/thousands-feared-killed-philippine-typhoon-2013119131138727893.html
@Jeff_Piotrowski seems max level was about 1 floor high, 2 blocks in we had about 4.5ft in our hotel. Phillipines infrastructure v v fragile
— James Reynolds (@typhoonfury) November 9, 2013
Morgerman posted this harrowing report on Facebook:
First off, Tacloban City is devastated. The city is a horrid landscape of smashed buildings and completely defoliated trees, with widespread looting and unclaimed bodies decaying in the open air. The typhoon moved fast and didn’t last long– only a few hours– but it struck the city with absolutely terrifying ferocity. At the height of the storm, as the wind rose to a scream, as windows exploded and as our solid-concrete downtown hotel trembled from the impact of flying debris, as pictures blew off the walls and as children became hysterical, a tremendous storm surge swept the entire downtown. Waterfront blocks were reduced to heaps of rubble. In our hotel, trapped first-floor guests smashed the windows of their rooms to keep from drowning and screamed for help, and we had to drop our cameras and pull them out on mattresses and physically carry the elderly and disabled to the second floor. Mark’s leg was ripped open by a piece of debris and he’ll require surgery. The city has no communication with the outside world. The hospitals are overflowing with the critically injured. The surrounding communities are mowed down. After a bleak night in a hot, pitch-black, trashed hotel, James, Mark, and I managed to get out of the city on a military chopper and get to Cebu via a C-130– sitting next to corpses in body bags. Meteorologically, Super Typhoon HAIYAN was fascinating; from a human-interest standpoint, it was utterly ghastly. It’s been difficult to process.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/11/09/disaster-in-tacloban-philippines-chasers-document-ghastly-scene-from-typhoon/
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16aq0AH-OnEE_bM53iL5qInqHPZ28lntEXPs-rS01a88/viewform
ALERT / @UN assessment team says “significant damage” to coastal #Leyte with many houses destroyed, heavy ships thrown to shore #YolandaPH
— Typhoon Haiyan (@TyphoonHaiyan) November 9, 2013
“Extremely desperate situation” in Tacloban from super typhoon #Haiyan. Details: http://t.co/oQEOdqmxNE #Yolanda
— Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) November 9, 2013
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/11/09/13/massive-destruction-tacloban-city
http://www.itv.com/news/story/2013-11-07/super-typhoon-haiyan-philippines/
http://www.rappler.com/nation/43311-diary-tacloban-death-anarchy
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57611622/typhoon-haiyans-death-toll-rises-in-philippines/
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/524159/1200-believed-dead-in-philippine-typhoon-red-cross
UPDATE / This year’s beauty pageant was dedicated to the Philippines and Vietnam. #MissUniverse2013 #YolandaPH
— Typhoon Haiyan (@TyphoonHaiyan) November 9, 2013
Damage far worse than people thought: http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/recent-tropical-cyclones-killed-over-one-thousand-20131109?hootPostID=774277f3e615bfd5c5f0a71157fbfab7
http://earthsky.org/earth/incredible-images-and-video-of-super-typhoon-haiyan
WFP has mobilized an immediate US$2m for quick #Haiyan response but the need will be great. Please give here to help: http://t.co/h5lL88tIOc
— World Food Programme (@WFP) November 9, 2013
BREAKING NEWS / @UNICEF estimates that 1.7 million children are impacted by #YolandaPH. #Haiyan #phillipines #yolandarelief
— Typhoon Haiyan (@TyphoonHaiyan) November 9, 2013
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/super-typhoon-haiyan-hits-philippines-230815112.html
#BREAKING NEWS / More than 200 elite policemen are now in #Tacloban City to help in peace, order situation amid looting reports #yolandaPH
— Typhoon Haiyan (@TyphoonHaiyan) November 10, 2013
#Philippines using social media hashtags to reach out to victims of #haiyan #yolandaPH @philredcross @TyphoonHaiyan pic.twitter.com/PqyFveWRna
— AustraliaNetworkNews (@an_news) November 10, 2013
Massive online efforts from PH govt to help aid and search and rescue efforts: http://www.gov.ph/crisis-response/updates-typhoon-yolanda/
http://www.gov.ph/crisis-response/updates-typhoon-yolanda/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24887337
http://www.itv.com/news/story/2013-11-07/super-typhoon-haiyan-philippines/
http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2013/11/10/natpkg-philippines-typhoon-storm-chaser.james-reynolds-uncut-productions.html
http://www.gov.ph/2013/11/10/ndrrmc-data-report-per-province-november-10-2013/
http://anc.yahoo.com/video/pnp-explains-why-looting-never-015407805.html
600,000 people evacuated from Vietnam and Hainan as Yolanda Haiyan arppaches Sunday 10/11/2013
2 months to fully restore power as 90% poles lost in storm surge https://donate.oxfam.org.uk/emergency?pscid=ps_ggl_Emergencies_Philippines_GDN
http://anc.yahoo.com/video/first-aid-tips-during-supertyphoon-083020305.html
@ShelterBox currently have teams in the Philippines following #Haiyan & is also on standby to respond to any need in #Vietnam.
— ShelterBox (@ShelterBox) November 10, 2013
ALERT / @BarackObama: “Michelle and I are deeply saddened by the loss of life and extensive damage done by Super #Typhoon #Yolanda.” (1/5)
— Typhoon Haiyan (@TyphoonHaiyan) November 10, 2013
DULAG! DULAG! DULAG! Bring them food,water & medicines please!!! No relief goods yet! It’s been 3 days na walang makain mga tao dun! #HELP
— D I M P L E™ (@dimpznjbs) November 11, 2013
TACLOBAN’s NOT A SAFE PLACE ANYMORE! Swear!!!
— D I M P L E™ (@dimpznjbs) November 11, 2013
Pls RT: If you are looking for a family or friend, use #TracingPH or fill up http://t.co/SB5mTqW2qS pic.twitter.com/yoZGxGGwJw
— Philippine Red Cross (@philredcross) November 10, 2013
11/11/2013 Tacloban now officially placed under a state of emergency
Red Cross report “absolute bedlam”
UK Govt promises £10 million
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