Typhoon YOLANDA (Haiyan)

[Ry_Tower]

^ Kulang pa kasi laki nang pwet niya. Yan ang kups.

[ozcity]

Sino yung isang mayor na nainterview re sa pag delay ng distribution ng bigas?...ang sabi e bakit daw nya idedelay e papogi daw yun sa kanya....tigas din ng mukha

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[carwhacko]

Hahaha natawa nga ko sa mayor na yun. Parang intsik surname non eh.

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[antonath]

oh isa pa ito. mga peste.
Thief Steals from Volunteers Helping Typhoon Victims Unknowingly Uploads Selfies to the Internet | When In Manila

Thief Steals from Volunteers Helping Typhoon Victims Unknowingly Uploads Selfies to the Internet



You know how there are scumbags out there who steal things that aren’t theirs? Well, this guy takes the scumbag level to a whole new low! This mother&#^%*#$* not only stole items that aren’t his, but he actually did it while at the Villamore Airbase where volunteers were helping super typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan victims!



My good friend was volunteering at the Villamor Airbase, greeting victims of super typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan who were arriving there by giving them food, shelter, rides, and even hugs! Of course, some worthless jerks had to take advantage of a vulnerable situation like this to steal from those who are helping!

Volunteers were helping at the Villamor Airbase here - ADOPT A DAY: Need Volunteers at Villamor Airbase to Greet and Help Victims Arriving from Visayas | When In Manila when their personal items were stolen.

Hey a-hole! You got a lot of bad karma coming your way! In fact, that bad karma starts now!

See, this ugly sonofagun started to take some selfies with his new stolen gadgets, but what he didn’t know is that my friend has her photo album linked up with her Dropbox account. For those of you not familiar, it pretty much means all his photos get uploaded to her other online file sharing account. So she sees all the photos and selfies the stupid thief is taking!

Please help us find this worthless thief!

Below are the details my friend posted:



I just want to give a friendly warning to all of you especially who are volunteering now in Villamor Airbase and other relief operations. Some people are just here to really take advantage during times like these.

As you might know, I lost some valuables last Tuesday, November 19, while doing volunteer work in Villamor Airbase. Before we even started, we noticed this guy in pink shirt lingering around our designated area, but since we thought he is with the other volunteer group with the sole purpose also of helping the Yolanda survivors, we just ignored him and continued packing & distributing relief goods. Little did we know that he was there not to help, but he was there for his own personal gain.

Thanks to technology, I was able to confirm my suspicions. Two days after the incident, I was able to retrive pictures of him thru my Dropbox app account that is synced to my stolen Samsung S4 phone. YESSS! THE THIEF IS UNKNOWINGLY SENDING ME HIS SELFIE PICS!!!

The police said this might be a scheme/ modus operandi, so please, to all of you, please be warned. Look at his pictures. Stare at it. (Creepy!!) Be vigilant. Take care of your things and beware of people like him. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD. Pls help me share.



Again, they saw this guy lurking around their area by the airbase, which removes the possibility of this being some random guy who bought the phone at Greenhills. (he probably tried to sell it there). Also, if he just “found” this phone, he could have turned it in to the proper authorities instead of taking it home and taking selfies!

Without further delay, here are the photos of this sad sad thief, who steals from people volunteering their time to help super typhoon victims.

If you recognize him or know who he is, please leave a comment below!

PLEASE SHARE to help find this thief and to spread the word about worthless assholes like him, stealing from those helping others!

Thief Steals from Volunteers Helping Typhoon Victims Unknowingly Uploads Selfies to the Internet blur

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Thief selfies!

Thief Steals from Volunteers Helping Typhoon Yolanda Haiyan Victims Unknowingly Uploads Selfies to the Internet

Thief Steals from Volunteers Helping Typhoon Yolanda Haiyan Victims Unknowingly Uploads Selfies to the Internet selfie
Thief Selfie



PLEASE SHARE to help find this thief and to spread the word about worthless a-holes like him, stealing from those helping others!

Also, we re-confirmed with my friend if they are sure they saw this guy there, as he may have just bought this phone from Greenhills not knowing it was stolen, and they said:



Yep. we are 500% sure!!! I was with other friends that night. We all remembered him from that night lurking around our area. It will be too much of a coincidence that he was there too the moment I lost my phone… and he coincidentally bought the same phone in Greenhills… and the first picture uploaded by him is around the time I lost my phone..



Funny how this happened as the word “Selfie” just got awarded as the word of the year! - Selfie is Word of the Year | When In Manila

We’re still trying to find him! Help us spread the word!

[Monseratto]

FF7

[prince777]

Hahaha natawa nga ko sa mayor na yun. Parang intsik surname non eh.

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Siya-Kooy! Este SIA-QUE! mayor of our neighbor town..


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[Monseratto]

You were in Tacloban before the storm — did it look like people were prepared for it?
We arrived the afternoon before the storm struck. My basic impression: people seemed fairly nonchalant. They were aware the storm was coming, but maybe didn’t completely realize how powerful it was. I talked to people in a waterfront neighborhood the night before the typhoon; I told them they shouldn’t stay there for the storm, that they should move somewhere safer. This is the neighborhood you see at the beginning of my video. After the storm passed, that neighborhood had disappeared completely — it was just a field of rubble. You can see this neighborhood near the end of my video. I really hope and pray the people I talked with moved somewhere else before the storm.

Do you think the community — and the government — could have been better prepared?
I don’t believe Tacloban City was totally prepared for a storm of that severity. However, I can’t comment on why not. I know that PAGASA was issuing warnings. I think when an extremely powerful storm is coming, it’s sometimes hard for people to believe the warnings, because what’s being described is so far beyond what they’ve experienced previously. We’ve had this same problem in the USA — people don’t always heed the warnings, like in Hurricane Katrina.

Was the old lady in the first video we did a post on okay? Do you know anything about her status now?
We rescued several people — not just the elderly woman, but also a disabled girl, a mother, a man in a wheelchair, and more. I am happy to say that everyone in the Hotel Alejandro survived, with only minor injuries. I did not see the elderly woman afterward, but like I said, I believe everyone was fine. We stayed in the hotel another 36 hours after the typhoon and we would have heard about it if someone didn’t survive. Also, the people in my video who were struggling to cross the flooded street all made it across — and they were OK as well! I am happy to answer questions. Thank you so much for your interest in this story. My heart goes out to the Filipinos — the storm was so tragic.

[vinj]

^ I would agree to that. One of the office staff just returned from Guiuan today and in their place the fatalities were not as bad (all his family survived in the island they were on) precisely because they were all warned and evacuated. Their homes are gone but they're nonetheless thankful that their family is intact.

[Monseratto]

Sums up the effort of some goverment agencies...

[Monseratto]

Remember the Police officer who was relieved after giving the 10,000 casualties guesstimate in a "emotional drama"...

President concedes ‘Yolanda’ death toll has doubled
By Nikko Dizon
Philippine Daily Inquirer
2:31 am | Tuesday, November 26th, 2013

President Aquino is not bothered that the official death toll from Supertyphoon “Yolanda” is now twice the estimate he gave in an interview with CNN last week.

Aquino told the Inquirer on Monday that the 2,000-2,500 estimate of the death toll that he mentioned in an interview with CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour was based on the initial, confirmed report he received from the ground.

“The actual figure now is really way beyond the initial estimate I gave,” Aquino said.

But the government will not just yet give another estimate, even if the civil defense agency has begun to receive official reports from its regional offices.

“We want to give figures [that cannot be doubted], because we don’t want to increase the people’s anxiety, especially those with missing relatives,” Aquino said.

The official death toll stands at 5,209, which does not include 1,755 unidentified bodies recovered in Tacloban City, Leyte province, from Nov. 15 to 21.

But the official death toll is still rising, with more bodies being recovered as workers clear numerous communities flattened by the typhoon on Nov. 8.
In hardest-hit Tacloban alone, the death toll is now close to 2,000, with the body count reaching 1,932 on Monday.

Bube Arce, head of the body recovery task force, said more bodies were expected to be found as workers clear the city of rubble and storm debris.

Senior Supt. Pablito Cordeta, information officer of the task force, said workers found 57 bodies on Sunday.

Under scrutiny

The President’s handling of the response to the catastrophe has come under local and foreign scrutiny principally because of the slow provision of relief to the survivors and the lack of urgency in the retrieval of the bodies of the victims, which were allowed to litter and putrefy on the streets for days.

The government also appeared to be in denial that Yolanda (international name: “Haiyan”), the most powerful typhoon on record, claimed the lives of thousands of people.

With maximum winds of up to 250 kilometers per hour, Yolanda slammed into the Samar-Leyte typhoon alley, generating storm surges as high as 6 meters as it roared across the Visayan region, flattening entire communities and toppling power and communication lines on Nov. 8.

First responders reported seeing numerous bodies littering the streets and floating in the water, and local government and police officials feared the storm had killed up to 10,000 people.

The government was displeased with that estimate and sacked the regional police director in Eastern Visayas, Chief Supt. Elmer Soria, who had quoted the figure from a briefing by Leyte Gov. Dominic Petilla on Nov. 9.

The sacking of Soria and the clampdown on body-count reports by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) gave rise to the criticism that the government was playing down the death toll.

High figure low

International agencies, however, said the death toll estimate of 10,000 appeared to be low, considering the massive destruction wrought by the typhoon.

The President acknowledged that the NDRRMC had been criticized for its low casualty count.

“It’s because you have to make sure that there is the certification or a coroner’s report before it is made official,” he said, referring to the body-count procedure.

Aquino said some local officials had reported to him casualty counts, both missing and dead, only for the figures to be amended later.

He said he had ordered an investigation of the high fatality count because of “a wide disparity in various areas.”

“What is it that contributed to [the high casualty count]?” the President said.

He acknowledged, however, that the topography and the storm surge were among the reasons why so many people perished.

“[But] looking at Guiuan (in Leyte), the casualty count was proportionate to the effects of the typhoon,” he said.

Uncounted

The real death toll may take long to establish even with help from foreign forensic experts in identifying the bodies.

Unidentified bodies are buried uncounted, keeping the official death toll low.

In Tacloban, recovered bodies are deposited in the public cemeteries at Basper village, 8 kilometers from the provincial capital, and Suhi village, 13 km from the city.

Arce said the bodies were placed in body bags and laid in open pits in the two cemeteries. The bodies were sprayed with lime to contain the stench, he said.

But the pits were not covered, as more bodies were expected to be found, Arce said.

According to the Tacloban social welfare and development office, 546 people remained missing and their relatives were searching for them.

While the recovery group knew how many bodies had been found, it could not say how many were thrown into each pit in the two cemeteries.

Of the 1,932 bodies recovered as of Sunday, only 245 were identified by relatives.—With a report by Joey Gabieta, Inquirer Visayas

Read more: President concedes ?Yolanda? death toll has doubled | Inquirer News
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[ClaNker]

^

Two days after the storm, on Sunday, Soria told reporters in Tacloban City, Leyte – the hardest hit locality – that the number of deaths was pegged at 10,000.

The figure however, was based on the estimates of the Leyte governor, a party mate of the President.

"We had a meeting last night (Saturday, November 9) with the governor and based on the government's estimates, initially there are 10,000 casualties (dead)," Soria was quoted as saying.

Other reports quoting Tacloban administrator Tecson Lim also gave the same number. Lim reportedly said the death toll in the city alone “could go up to 10,000.”

Initially 10,000 daw. Initially yan according kay mamang pulis. So kung tama si mamang pulis eh more than 10K na dapat ang body count.

[antonath]

from photoworldmanila fb
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[badkuk]

re casualty estimates: again, it's not an issue of who guessed right, it's when and how he got that number.


Did the actual number really matter at the time? What was important was to respond to the situation asap. Help now, count the bodies later, imho.

So was it a mistake to relieve the police general at that time, even if he was suffering from emotional distress? i think not.

Should he be reinstated? If he has regained his full capacities, then maybe it should be considered. But that decision shouldn't be based on the mere fact that he guessed right.

[uls]

the guy was fired coz his 10,000 death toll estimate made Aquino look bad

yun lang yun

[ClaNker]

^ Amazing. Meaning anyone can act idiotic in front of the media na parang lang tanod sa kanto.

Lespu: Initially po 10,000 po ang namatay.

Na verify mo ba yan?

Lespu: Hindi po, basta po initially 10,000 po ang patay.

Stupid PNoy, hangang PSP lang kasi ang alam eh.

[uls]

the foreign media quoted that 10,000 death toll and it made Aquino look bad

Aquino's image was suffering from comments in the foreign media

he was mad and had to punish someone

[ClaNker]

the foreign media quoted that 10,000 death toll and it made Aquino look bad

Aquino's image was suffering from comments in the foreign media

he was mad and had to punish someone

Not just someone, region 8 police chief eto.

The stupid lespu rightfully deserves that punishment.

[uls]

yun na nga

ano ba sabi ko?

Aquino had to punish someone for making him look bad

napahiya si Aquino sa foreign media kaya kailangan ma-punish yung nagsabi sampung libo ang namatay

[ClaNker]

yun na nga

ano ba sabi ko?

Aquino had to punish someone for making him look bad

napahiya si Aquino sa foreign media kaya kailangan ma-punish yung nagsabi sampung libo ang namatay

Kulang eh. Napa hiya lang? so ganon lang yun. Ang babaw naman.

PNoy: Pinahiya mo ako sa ka BOBOHAN mo! 2nd day palang may "initially 10,000 died" kana? Pano mo nakuha yang estimate na yan? Verified ba yan? Bobo kang PI ka, mag bakasyon ka muna!

Kumpleto dapat.

[Monseratto]

We want our RICE!!!

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