Tacloban City: Three weeks after Super Typhoon Haiyan
I wanted to
report to you that the nightmare was over. It is not, please read this report
from Al Jazeera. It has been nearly three weeks since Typhoon Haiyan, the
world's biggest-ever storm to make landfall, struck the central
Philippines - killing more than 5,200 people, displacing 4.4 million and
destroying $547m in crops and infrastructure.
In Leyte
Province, 70 to 80 percent of the area was destroyed. Tacloban, the capital of
Leyte, where five-metre waves flattened nearly everything in their path,
suffered more loss of life than any other Philippine city. Outside the town
centre, in a hillside cemetery, city workers have dug a mass gravesite which stretches along 100
metres.
Much of
Tacloban has been turned to rubble, leaving many survivors homeless and
dependent on aid. Philippine Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla said on November 14 that it may take six weeks before
the first typhoon-hit towns get their electric power back.
Visiting the
city, it is clear that - despite the help of the international community - it will take a
very long time for the town to recover. Source: Aljazeera
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A Typhoon Haiyan survivor carrying her clothes looks at a
mannequin's head which was put on a stick as she walks through the ruins of
Tacloban City, on November 22, 2013.
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A devastated area is seen from the air, during the first
commercial flight after services re-opened between Manila and Tacloban on
November 21, 2013.
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Typhoon Haiyan survivors stand in the rain and watch as
people from their destroyed neighborhood search for dead bodies in the rubble
in Tacloban City, on November 22, 2013.
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A survivor covers his nose as he rides past bags containing
corpses in the streets near the airport in Tacloban City, Leyte, on November
23, 2013.
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A heavy truck washed ashore in a residential area remains
unmoved two weeks after the storm. The photo was taken in Tacloban City, on
November 23, 2013.
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Policemen load the bodies of typhoon victims recovered from
the rubble in downtown Tacloban City, on November 23, 2013.
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Typhoon Haiyan survivors wait for their evacuation flight at
the airport in Tacloban City on November 21, 2013.
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A soldier walks by a destroyed building as a US Marine Force
Sea Hawk helicopter lands at the airport in Tacloban City, on November 21,
2013. Humanitarian efforts from all over the world, led by the United States,
are now in central Philippines following the November 8 Typhoon Haiyan that
displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
/Na Son Nguyen/Al Jazeera
Typhoon survivors take shelter inside a Catholic Church in
Tacloban city, on November 22, 2013.
/Na Son Nguyen/Al Jazeera
In this photo taken on Friday November 22, 2013, a Filipino
boy is seen standing in what used to be the central market of Tacloban City -
now mostly rubble.
/Na Son Nguyen/Al Jazeera
Typhoon Haiyan survivor Benjamin Villaruel, 47, is seen
holding his daughter as he cooks dinner at a place where his family takes
shelter in Tacloban City, on Friday November 22, 2013.
/Na Son Nguyen/Al Jazeera
A Filipino man carries a tin roof as he walks pass the
debris on Saturday, November 23, 2013 in Tacloban City.
/Na Son Nguyen/Al Jazeera
A Philippino boy plays golf wth a club he found in the
rubble in downtown Tacloban City, on November 22, 2013.
/Na Son Nguyen/Al Jazeera
Typhoon Haiyan survivors sit inside their candlelit home in
Tacloban City, on Thursday, November 21, 2013.
/Na Son Nguyen/Al Jazeera
Typhoon survivors pose for photos while buying some
accesories at a downtown public market as businesses slowly open in Tacloban
City, on November 22, 2013.
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