The grim task of counting the bodies was just beginning Monday as authorities sifted through the rubble of what was left behind in hard-hit cities like Tacloban on the island of Leyte. The official toll stood at 255 Monday, according to the country's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
"I have not spoken to anyone who has not lost someone, a relative close to them. We are looking for as many as we can," Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez told CNN.Andrew Stevens and Paula Hancocks, CNN
***
Tropical Penpals Blog (Site is down at the moment)
"We were very lucky we lost power, we lost internet, we lost water. Yesterday afternoon was our first access to power via our generator and with it the media. The damage in other areas is horrific in comparison to here in Minglanilla, Cebu."
7 comments:
All told, I believe the estimated cost of damage is around $6.
I don't know what you can say about this that hasn't been said over and over, so I'll repeat what is always the case: The U.S. is there first and strongest with the aid, and I'm proud of that.
The tropical pen-pals links are interesting. He said a papaya plant is in his tree. I thought papayas are trees. That forced me to become an expert on papaya trees and then continue reading the blog. Then back at the blog the very next sentence refers to the papaya tree causing the problem.
Empty lot. The papaya tree could have been removed and nobody would have cared or noticed and now it's affecting the wires.
A magnificent tree like that growing in an empty lot. You see that in Mexico too. And the whole time you're thinking, "Man, I'd pay $500 for that tree."
I saw a coconut hit the ground on a path cut through an empty lot that amounted to a city block. Houses build on the side of the central block so that the houses faced the gulf, a thick jungle-ette, a perfect little setting and there was a coconut had fallen onto the path and sent out roots to spread laterally across the surface of the jungle path but under leaf litter and just enough direct sunlight for just enough of the day to send up a stalk that looks like a spear straight up from the end of the coconut. Bizarre. And then the spear unfolds into a frond. While the center of the spear continues growing, to unfold into a frond with a continuing spear point. I wanted it. It was the more perfect of three such baby coconuts trees I noticed around the place, like junk. If it isn't taken it will turn into a coconut tree right there in the path.
My extended family in Cebu is doing well.
Friends and family in Tacloban have yet to be heard from, and, and the news there is very grim.
Meth, that would be Haiti, not the Philippines. The Emelda Marcos Shoe Museum is worth considerably more than that.
Also, we need to be nice to the Philippines. They provide like half the nurses in the USA.
Icepick said...
Meth, that would be Haiti, not the Philippines. The Emelda Marcos Shoe Museum is worth considerably more than that.
Also, we need to be nice to the Philippines. They provide like half the nurses in the USA.
Oh you are right. I always get my 8th world toilets mixed up. Sorry.
I always get my 8th world toilets mixed up.
It'll get less confusing as the US shifts downward in status.
Post a Comment