Originally Posted by stevewool
... NO holds barred!
Hmm ... QUITE!!
...............! Like we witnessed all too frequently - almost every day, in fact (mainly kids
) - throughout both periods I spent in the Phils in 2008/9. And that was in so~called "normal" circumstances.
... AWFUL!
Thanks for letting us know lordna. The anxiety continues but at least her and brother can join other family members in safe surroundings. Let's hope and pray her sister can be found safe and sound
Regard
gWapito
Thanks Lordna for taking the time to post. Our thoughts are with you and your loved ones. Please update us when you are able.
Glad to share your good news lordna. Thanks for posting.
Thanks also for the information. Gives us hope...we're still waiting for contact and news
What's this I hear, Philippine gov wanting taxes on donation boxes from Germany, is this true?
Lordna, so glad to hear that some of your wife's family have been in touch. I hope and pray that news of your sister-in-law and her family arrives soon
Good news for lordna! That's a relief,
I hope the others awaiting to hear from loved ones are not waiting much longer,
This event has moved me very much in the way I never felt before, and the brighter side is that it shows how much we love the Filipino people,
I hope you guys hear something soon
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The United Nations have got these folks weighed up....It's under their instruction The Philippine Gov are to have no involvement with the relief distribution that they've just sent in on 5 U.S Marines C130 planes............Their cards are marked, alright.........................
Have you managed to contact your friends Stevie ? - Mrs D comes from Bicol thankfully not too serious around those parts but they were without power & phones until Tuesday.
Not as yet mark they are from guiaun we have heard it is almost total devastation thete but ee are hoping we will have some news soon
AN HAPPY WIFE IS A HAPPY LIFE
UK says several Britons missing after Haiyan
Several British nationals are missing following the typhoon that has killed thousands in the Philippines, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Saturday, November 16.
"The foreign secretary confirmed that a number of British nationals remained unaccounted for," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
A ministry spokesman declined to specify how many Britons were missing.
In a phone call to his Philippine counterpart Albert del Rosario, Hague offered his condolences in the wake of the devastating Super Typhoon Yolanda (international codename: Haiyan) of November 8 and asked for "every possible assistance" to be given to Britons caught up in the disaster, the ministry said.
Britain's Channel Four News had on Friday, November 15, reported that British pharmacist Colin Bembridge, 61, had gone missing with his Filipino partner Maybelle and their 3-year-old daughter while visiting relatives near the now-devastated city of Tacloban.
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday announced that Britain was providing a further £30 million ($48 million, 36 million euros) to help the relief effort, in addition to the £23 million already pledged.
A British warship, HMS Daring, is due to arrive at the Philippines' Cebu island on Sunday, November 17, after making its way from Singapore.
Helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious – the largest ship in the British navy – was also due to be deployed along with a Royal Air Force C-17 transport aircraft.
Authorities in the Philippines have put the official death toll at 3,633, with 1,179 people missing and nearly 12,500 injured.
The UN has put the number of dead at 4,460 and said Saturday that 2.5 million people still "urgently" required food assistance
Source:-
http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issue...missing-haiyan
14 Palawan towns under state of calamity
Typhoon Yolanda's wrath in Coron, Palawan
The last leg of Super Typhoon Yolanda's (Haiyan's) destructive journey was in Busuanga, Palawan.
There, the typhoon made its 6th and last landfall Friday night, November 8, before it left the country in the afternoon of Saturday, November 9. (READ: Yolanda goes 'island hopping,' makes 6 landfalls)
A full week after it exited, Palawan's Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMO) released a report saying the province's Sangguniang Panlalawigan placed 14 towns under a state of calamity:
•Agutaya
•Araceli
•Busuanga
•Cagayancillo
•Coron
•Culion
•Cuyo Dumaran
•El Nido
•Linapacan
•Magsaysay
•Roxas
•San Vicente
•Taytay
According to a report by state-run Philippine News Agency (PNA), the resolution that placed the towns under a state of calamity also pegged the number of affected families at around 20,308.
Through the resolution, Palawan Gov Jose Alvarez may tap into the province's calamity fund to start rehabilitation in these towns. But even without the calamity fund, help has been pouring in for the Palaweños.
The PNA reported that foreign tourists and expatriates who consider Palawan as their home came to the PDRRMO command center to bring relief goods.
Private entities are also pitching in. PDRRMO executive director Gilbert Baaco received from Malampaya Foundation Inc. P1 million-worth of food packs for the Calamianes Islands after they earlier sent relief goods to Coron.
The provincial government's employees association also began its own relief drive.
“The compassion of the people for the Palaweños, who were devastated by Yolanda is even overwhelming than the strong winds and heavy rains that slammed the northernmost island towns,” Baaco said.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council on Saturday, November 16, said the damage of Typhoon Yolanda which wreaked havoc in the Visayas now stands at P9.46 billion. The number of casualties stood at 3,633 as of early morning.
Three days after Yolanda hit Palawan, relief goods already started arriving in Coron. Earlier reports said at least 6 died in the town alone.
Source:-
http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issue...state-calamity
Philippines typhoon: Aid effort gathers pace
US Navy helicopters are now delivering relief supplies to many victims
The international aid effort in parts of the Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan is starting to have a major impact, with tens of thousands of victims of receiving supplies.
Medical teams are operating in the worst-affected areas and US helicopters flying aid to isolated settlements.
The UN says it and its partners hope to provide enough aid for six months.
Haiyan, which hit eight days ago, has killed more than 3,600 people and left about half a million homeless.
Patrick Fuller of the International Federation of the Red Cross told the Associated Press news agency: "At the moment we are ramping up a major relief effort and the supplies are coming in."
Mr Fuller - who is in Tacloban, one of the worst-hit areas - said: "We're setting up an emergency response hospital here, water and sanitation units." However, he added that people in affected areas would need long-term "support with rebuilding".
Both the Red Cross and the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said they would have mobile surgical units up and running in Tacloban by the end of the weekend.
US Navy helicopters have been dropping food, water and other supplies from the aircraft carrier USS George Washington, which arrived off the coast on Thursday.
The carrier is also expanding search-and-rescue operations. The US military said it would send about 1,000 more troops along with additional ships and aircraft to join the aid effort.
Britain will give an extra £30m ($50m) in emergency aid, bringing UK assistance to £50m, Prime Minister David Cameron announced. The UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) said donations from the public had reached £33m.
Although a huge international aid effort is under way, widespread infrastructure damage is hampering efforts to distribute it to some areas.
Desperate survivors are still trying to leave the coastal city of Ormoc, 105 km (65 miles) west of Tacloban, Reuters news agency reports.
Typhoon Haiyan was one of the most powerful typhoons ever to hit land, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.
The city of Tacloban has been virtually flattened
US soldiers are now flying in supplies to the Tacloban area
Hundreds of thousands of people have been made homeless by the storm
Philippine Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Soliman acknowledged in a radio interview that the national relief response had been too slow to reach many areas.
"We will double our efforts to distribute relief goods because we've been hearing complaints that a lot of people have yet to receive relief goods," she said.
About 11 million people have been affected by Typhoon Haiyan, according to UN estimates.
It was one of the most powerful storms ever recorded on land, with winds exceeding 320km/h (200 mph) unleashing massive waves. Tacloban's airport was left in ruins.
Health experts have warned that the worst-affected areas are entering a peak danger period for the spread of infectious diseases.
The Philippines National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said that as of 10:00 GMT on Saturday, 3,637 people had been reported dead, 12,501 injured and 1,186 missing. The death toll is expected to rise as further assessments are made.
Source:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24972707
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-...t-philippines/
the first sea wave
Incredible Video clip that joe.....unstoppable power of mother nature.
Filmed by an aid worker.
Did you know that hundreds of voluteer aid workers went out to the Philippine islands just before the Super-typhoon made landfall just to be on-the-ground to organise help the aftermath?
Brave wonderful folks.
‘We gave them food and they cried’
Once hungry evacuees are now well fed at the evacuation center in the Tinago sports complex in Cebu City. But it is still unclear how long evacuees can stay in gyms and pension houses
When Tinago Barangay (village) Captain Joel Garganera first set up the evacuation center at the sports complex here 5 days ago, he saw something that troubled him deeply.
“They came here. They said they’re hungry. And when you give them food, they cry. I wonder why.”
“Later, I understand they lined up there for two days just to get a ride on a C130. No food to eat, just water. Before that, they walked 10 kilometers to get to the airport from their homes, some in wheelchairs with all those bruises. It’s so sad,” he told Rappler on Sunday, November 17.
Garganera was referring to the 1,000 evacuees from Samar and Leyte who fled their home provinces in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), the world’s strongest typhoon that hit central Philippines on November 8.
The typhoon killed 3,681 people as of last count, and flattened entire cities and towns, leaving residents of Eastern Visayas homeless and many fleeing with only the clothes on their back.
Now in Cebu, the evacuees are in a much better condition. Garganera said there is no shortage of food, water and medical care, with the city government, private donors, and foreign groups welcoming the busloads of victims upon their arrival on board military ships and planes.
In Tinago, barangay officials and volunteers try to make the evacuees feel at home. There is a playhouse for children, 24/7 medical desk, professionals conducting debriefing, mats and pillows, 10 toilets, regular meals and snacks, and this weekend, even a medical mission from a Taiwanese group, and a party organized by students.
The complex houses 300 and is not overcrowded, with the new evacuees brought to other centers.
“There’s a very big difference. You see the smile on their face. There was one school teacher. I didn’t know she was a teacher because she wore the same dress for 6 days and I only found out when she got new clothes and she began talking.”
Garganera added, “If you wear the same clothes, the same underwear, somehow it affects your behavior, your personality, but once you are dressed up already, you try to show the real you. It’s bringing back dignity.”
Joel Garganera, barangay captain of Tinago in Cebu City, says it is uncertain how long the evacuation centers will operate as the exodus from Haiyan-hit provinces continues 9 days after the disaster
Indefinite stay
With Cebu’s strategic location, Garganera said it is natural for the country’s de facto second capital to be a transit point for the victims. Cebu is located west of Samar and Leyte, the hardest hit provinces.
The barangay captain said there are now 5 evacuation centers in Cebu City, and others in Mandaue City in Cebu province. Besides barangay gyms, the centers consist of pension houses and government offices.
Many of the evacuees are women and children.
“Many of the men are left behind to secure their loved ones, to look for their missing relatives,” Garganera said.
Nine days after the disaster, the exodus has not stopped. While evacuees are welcome, Garganera said he does not know until when the barangay and the city government will provide the manpower, electricity, transportation and other resources to keep the evacuation centers going.
While some evacuees proceed to their relatives’ homes or head to other areas, others have no place to go.
“The big question is for how long they’re gonna stay here. That I do not know. I would say indefinite,” he said.
Cebu City Mayor Mike Rama and Philippine Red Cross Chairman Richard Gordon have announced a plan to convert a building at the South Road Properties into a Red Cross tent city.
The Cebu Provincial Government is also looking into a similar arrangement. Provincial Board Member Miguel Magpale told Rappler he was among those Governor Hilario Davide III tasked to look for a property owned by the province for a tent city.
“We are considering different locations. We do not want the evacuees to be exposed to bad elements, to go into drugs or be prone to prostitution. At the same time, the understanding is it will only be temporary because the province also has its own problem of homeless people. We have to balance that,” Magpale said.
Magpale said there are now 3,000 evacuees estimated in Cebu, and their stay can extend to about a year.
“There are a lot of factors to consider like putting up plumbing and electricity but the national government has said it will shoulder the cost,” he said.
Secretary to the Cabinet Jose Rene Almendras has said that the government is sure that the evacuees will eventually go back to Samar and Leyte as it promises to rehabilitate the devastated areas.
Still, some evacuees no longer have plans of returning.
Only consolation
For now, Garganera said he and his barangay will just do their best to accommodate the victims.
“We have to make them feel secure. We have to provide them what they need and somehow give them hope and try to help them in bringing their loved ones here and their families. Somehow, to help them get a new start.”
The barangay captain said as much as possible, he tries to distance himself from the evacuees so he does not get too emotionally attached, and is able to run the operations well.
“When some of them are leaving the evacuation center, they cry. They embrace you and they salute you. ‘Thank you, sir.’ That’s my only consolation. I just think, ‘Good. We are doing the right thing.’”
Source:-
http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issue...ebu-evacuation
so many brave people , so many wanting to help, a tear still appears in my eye when you read things like this
The DEC (Disaster Emergency Committee) Appeal had raised £35 million in donations from the British public as at yesterdayMore donations still coming in to be counted, including a percentage from ITV/ X Factor downloads
As expected, the medical and humanitarian situation is evolving after possibly the strongest storm ever to make landfall.
According to World Health Organization ( WHO ) 8 out of the 28 international medical teams now in the Philippines have started work, with another 14 expected to start in the next 48 hours. In coming weeks, relief for current teams will be needed.
The main immediate medical problems are the result of trauma ( crushed / fractured limbs ) and wounds which have already become septic.
Apart from tetanus jabs as soon as possible, a mass vaccination programme will start next week against measles and polio. Contaminated water supplies are a big problem, with the risk of cholera and typhoid.
People who already have heart conditions and diabetes need regular medication ; there is a risk of more heart attacks and strokes following a natural disaster of this severity.
All credit to the expert healthcare teams from the UK and elsewhere
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24980472
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