A UN official who visited Leyte described apocalyptic scenes from a Hollywood movie. “This is destruction on a massive scale. There are cars thrown like tumbleweed and the streets are strewn with debris,” Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, a UN disaster management team member said. “The last time I saw something of this scale was in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami,” he continued, recalling the 2004 disaster that claimed nearly a quarter of a million lives in Indonesia. It may be weeks before a more accurate number of casualties is known, if ever. Some initial reports circulating is that entire islands have vanished. With every island in the Philippines being heavily populated (total land mass of the entire country is only half the size of the U.S. state of Texas, yet there is a population of nearly 100 million), whatever number is finally determined, it is not going to be pleasant. Source: freepatriot.org/2013/11/09/entire-islands-reported-missing-thousands-feared-dead-in-philippines-super-storm/
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 02:31:59 +0000
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