Typhoon YOLANDA (Haiyan)

[Retz]

isa lang ang masasabi ko dyan and i quote JFK: "ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."

[chua_riwap]

pag bumisita si pnoy sa tacloban, sana may mag-advise sa kaniya na bawas-bawasan nya ang pag ngiti, while inspecting ground zero.
baka ma-misinterpret yung "facial expression" niya, murahin pa siya ng mga tao roon.

[Retz]

Duterte for President !

[Retz]

UN spokesman defends PH response to Yolanda



United Nations (Reuters) - The United Nations on Tuesday (November 12) praised the efforts made by the government of the Philippines to respond to the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan (international name: Haiyan).

"The Philippine authorities have done a tremendous job in extremely difficult circumstances," said Martin Nesirky, the United Nations spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Philippine officials have been overwhelmed by Yolanda, one of the strongest typhoons on record, which tore through the Visays, the central part of the archipelago, on Friday and flattened Tacloban, coastal capital of Leyte province where officials had feared 10,000 people died, many drowning in a tsunami-like wall of seawater.

On Tuesday, President Benigno Aquino said the death toll from Haiyan's rampage through the country would closer to 2,000 or 2,500.

Aquino revealed the lower estimated toll after the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington set sail for the Philippines carrying about 5,000 sailors and more than 80 aircraft to accelerate relief efforts. It was joined by four other US Navy ships and should arrive in two to three days, the Pentagon said

Nesirky explained that the geography of the Philippines, with it's numerous islands, makes it difficult to deliver aid in a timely manner.

"People have not received aid in some cases where they desperately need it. Everybody's aware of that. It's a question of being able to marshall the resources you have and to get to the locations you can as quickly as you can. Not easy, but know people are doing the very best that they can," said Nesirky.

International relief efforts have begun to gather pace, with dozens of countries and organizations pledging tens of millions of dollars in aid. UN aid chief Valerie Amos, who has traveled to the Philippines, released $25 million for aid relief on Monday (November 11) from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund.

Rescuers have yet to reach remote parts of the coast, such as Guiuan, a city of 40,000 people that was largely destroyed.

Relief supplies poured into Tacloban along roads flanked with corpses and canyons of debris as the rain fell again. Rescue workers scrambled to reach other towns and villages still cut off, which could reveal the full extent of the casualties and devastation.

Tacloban's government was wiped out by the storm, said Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas. Officials were dead, missing or too overcome with grief to work. Of the city's 293 police officers, only 20 had shown up for duty, he said.

Corazon Soliman, Secretary of the Philippine Department of Social Welfare and Development, said aid had reached a third of Tacloban's 45,000 families. Most of its stores remain closed - either destroyed or shut after widespread looting.

Source: UN spokesman defends PH response to Yolanda - Solar News

UN spokesman defends PH response to Yolanda - Solar News

[Ry_Tower]

Finally may umako na din.

NDRRMC chief admits: We're not prepared for 'Yolanda' damage | Headlines, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com

[Retz]

nag additional donation na ang china $1.2M na.....

[greenlyt]

Finally may umako na din.

NDRRMC chief admits: We're not prepared for 'Yolanda' damage | Headlines, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com

thats good, aminin na hindi prepared kesa sa nagkukunwari na kaya

[ClaNker]

"Certainly on Thursday and Friday, PAGASA, which is the Philippines' meteorological service, they were sending out regular warnings of a seven-meter (22 ft) storm surge. That was going out on an hourly basis."

But as the storm approached Tacloban and authorities crisscrossed the city, their warnings often fell on deaf ears.

"Some people didn't believe us because it was so sunny," said Jerry Yaokasin, vice mayor of Tacloban. "Some people were even laughing."

One survivor at the Tacloban convention center said he would have evacuated if he had been told a tsunami-like wall of water might hit.

Hay inang ku po.

[BratPAQ]

Kaya pala maliit lang bibigay ng china
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/11...id-controversy
" . It will not be grateful if we hand them much money. Instead, it could use the cash to buy weapons from the US to attack us."

Baka daw pambili ng Pinas ng weapons yung pera at atakihin natin ang china. At Pinas pa ang aatake ha, What are these guys smoking?

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[Syuryuken]

nag additional donation na ang china $1.2M na.....

nahiya din sa ibang bansang nagbigay ng milyones na donasyon

[marg]

ANDERSON COOPER: PH RELIEF EFFORTS DISORGANIZED.......MISERABLE.

In their televised reports broadcast around the world, Cooper and Hancocks called the government's relief efforts disorganized and survivors are mostly left on their own to survive.

"It is certainly not organized. It's just a drop in the ocean compared to what's needed," Hancocks, a CNN international correspondent, said.

"We're five days on, and people that are coming and talking to me saying, 'I need food, I need water, why are the dead bodies still by their side. It's incredible, they've been there for five days. People are trying to live in the rubble of their homes," she added

The powerful typhoon "Yolanda" (Haiyan) cut through Tacloban and neighboring areas last November 8, bringing with it a massive storm surge that rose to as high as 15 feet. Dead bodies are scattered in the streets and beneath destroyed homes, commercial centers and churches. Even evacuation centers were affected by the surge of water.

Cooper, a television personality whose name has been trending on Twitter Philippines on Wednesday, observed how Philippine agencies and military are taking a long time from launching a full-scale effort on the ground.

"It's a miserable, miserable situation here. It is not getting better day by day. We're now entering the fifth day since the storm hit here in Tacloban ... You would expect maybe a feeding center that has been set up five days after the storm. We haven't seen that, certainly not in this area," Cooper said, speaking with CNN anchor Jake Tapper on The Lead newscast on Tuesday.

"It is a very desperate situation, among the most desperate I've seen in covering disasters in the last couple of years," he added.Philippine Star.

[Helios]

thats good, aminin na hindi prepared kesa sa nagkukunwari na kaya

i don't get it. not a single organisation can claim it is prepared enough for such a scenario. what can you expect from a tiny department in a 3rd world?
cooper et al have their fingers pointed at the wrong people who should have done more if not better.

for the past ten years international agencies are still struggling to apply principles developed from handling catastrophes (natural and manmade) into practice. most of them supposedly experts at these things, can only give accurate assessment of the situation, but most of the time fail to meet their primary humanitarian goal after landing on shore. also consider some of the 1st world countries took days before they respond after a devastation, and then after months and years of rehab the victims at ground zero still live in tents dependent on handouts and foreign aids.

look at what hurricanes sandy did to the easters and katrina to the southerns. the counties still struggled to cope with the aftermath even with the dep of homsec's preemptive system in place. while haiyan b*tch slaps the category 5 out of these two hurricanes, it chooses to landfall on the most geographically strewn islands surrounded entirely by the pacific.

events such as this occuring with increasing frequency in every part of the world, ten years of hardcore experience just won't cut it to have different orgs work together, seamlessly. probably it'll take more years and devastation until they finally institutionalise a single body to spearhead crisis management with the support of every agencies and gov't. i hope they get their act together before a highly populated city somewhere is shaken by a 9.2mag earthquake and a tsunami and a cat5 hurricane come hot on its heels.

[uls]

One survivor at the Tacloban convention center said he would have evacuated if he had been told a tsunami-like wall of water might hit.

see?

yan ang sinasabi ko

wala epek sa pinoy ang salitang "STORM SURGE"

dapat "TSUNAMI"

lahat kasi napanood sa TV ang Japan tsunami

[Retz]

ang meaning pala ng CNN Contra Noy Noy.

[Retz]

dumating na rin ung aircraft carrier ng US Navy....

Mammoth U.S. Navy ships arrive in the Philippines for typhoon relief - CNN.com

[Retz]

Haiyan Relief: UN Instructs U.S. Marines to Keep Relief Goods Away from Philippine Officials
By Reissa Su | November 14, 2013 4:25 PM EST

Typhoon Haiyan, locally known as Yolanda, left the central part of the Philippines devastated with an official death toll of 2,357 and 600,000 people displaced, according to authorities. Countries and various organisations around the world sent donations, medical and military personnel to aid ongoing relief operations.

Civilians displaced by Typhoon Haiyan board a U.S. Marine Corps KC-130 at Tacloban Air Base before being transported to Manila November 13, 2013. More than 30 countries have pledged aid, but distribution of relief goods has been hampered by impassable roads and rudderless towns that have lost leaders and emergency
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As international aid continues to pour for the Philippines, the country's Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has confirmed that most of the donations will not be handed over to Philippine government agencies.

In an interview on Nov 13, DFA spokesperson Raul Hernandez said all international monetary donors will be coursing money through relief organisations, foundations and charitable institutions. The DFA will serve as the first contact of countries and international organisations that has pledged to donate. It will then pass the information to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) and other related agencies involved in relief operations.


Some donors have reportedly began handing out relief goods to affected communities while others gave their in-kind donations to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the NDRRMC.

The U.S. Marines were reportedly instructed not to let Philippine government officials and politicians touch the relief goods that will arrive in Samar. Five C130 panes are scheduled to arrive, carrying relief goods from the United Nations.

Six days after one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded hit the cities and towns in central region of the Philippines, survivors became increasingly frustrated with the government's slow response to distribute badly needed food and water.

Source: Haiyan Relief: UN Instructs U.S. Marines to Keep Relief Goods Away from Philippine Officials - International Business Times

Hands-off mga politicians sa relief goods. lol.

[ClaNker]

see?

yan ang sinasabi ko

wala epek sa pinoy ang salitang "STORM SURGE"

dapat "TSUNAMI"

lahat kasi napanood sa TV ang Japan tsunami

Then sasabihin ng iba... Pano magka tsunami eh wala namang lindol?

"Some people didn't believe us because it was so sunny," said Jerry Yaokasin, vice mayor of Tacloban. "Some people were even laughing."

You can't cure stupid.

[ClaNker]

Hands-off mga politicians sa relief goods. lol.

Wag silang pumunta sa Bohol, palayasin sila ng Mayor dun.

[BratPAQ]

Hands-off mga politicians sa relief goods. lol.

Kahiya naman.

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[111prez]

"The U.S. Marines were reportedly instructed not to let Philippine government officials and politicians touch the relief goods that will arrive in Samar. Five C130 panes are scheduled to arrive, carrying relief goods from the United Nations."

Nakow, i-ta tax ni Kim Henares yan