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Cecil Laguardia, a spokeswoman for the aid organization World Vision, told TIME that one of the agency’s damage-assessment teams had traveled for a full day by boat, then car and then by foot to reach the city of Tacloban — capital of hard hit Leyte province — only to find it “almost totally flattened.” The same team is currently traversing torn-up roads to neighboring towns, because nonexistent communications mean that visual inspections are the only way to form a picture of the disaster. Read more: The Philippines Dazed Survivors Struggle in Typhoon Haiyans Wake | TIME world.time/2013/11/11/theyre-walking-because-theres-nothing-else-dazed-survivors-struggle-in-haiyans-wake/#ixzz2kOFofhEy
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:23:29 +0000

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