Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, displacing 600,000 people across the country and killing at least 10,000* on the central island of Leyte. Meteorologists speculated that the storm would surpass Super Typhoon Tip, which struck Japan in 1979, as the most powerful cyclone on record, with waves surging to 45 feet and gusts reaching up to 235 miles per hour. In Leyte’s capital, Tacloban, survivors dismantled ATMs and ransacked stores, corpses landed in trees and along roads, and hundreds of people gathered at the airport, which had been flattened. “All systems, all vestiges of modern living — communications, power, water — all are down.” said the Philippines’ interior secretary. “The water was as high as a coconut tree,” said bicycle-taxi driver Sandy Torotoro. “I was swept away by the rampaging water with logs, trees, and our house.”
Weekly Review
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Weekly Review
Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, displacing 600,000 people across the country and killing at least 10,000* on the central island of Leyte. Meteorologists speculated that the storm would surpass Super Typhoon Tip, which struck Japan in 1979, as the most powerful cyclone on record, with waves surging to 45 feet and gusts reaching up to 235 miles per hour. In Leyte’s capital, Tacloban, survivors dismantled ATMs and ransacked stores, corpses landed in trees and along roads, and hundreds of people gathered at the airport, which had been flattened. “All systems, all vestiges of modern living — communications, power, water — all are down.” said the Philippines’ interior secretary. “The water was as high as a coconut tree,” said bicycle-taxi driver Sandy Torotoro. “I was swept away by the rampaging water with logs, trees, and our house.”