(From urbansurvival) but as our Jakarta Bureau reported overnight, this is a considerably larger event than Katrina/Rita, just to give you a sense of scale of things, so recovery won’t necessarily be without a lot more pain and suffering to come. Hiya chief. Want to update you on regional events concerning the deadly typhoon rolling around these parts: A lot of folks, including me, have not heard from our people in the Philippines. My cousin lives in Luzon and I know a number of folks in Manila. We, of course, hope that the lack of comms is due to downed or overloaded circuits. What we do know is that the carnage is horrific, likely on a par with the tsunami in Banda Aceh in 2004. Reports show (graphically) hundreds of bodies floating in rivers and ponds. Entire villages have simply been erased. Landslides are still on-going as floods of water run downhill. As the storm continues across Asia, I have several acquaintances who have bugged out to Jakarta from Ho Chi Minh Cityj, Vietnam. Whoever can afford it is getting out of the country ahead of landfall. According to the folks I know, the airport was jammed and every flight out is booked solid. On comparison, the typhoon is far worse than Katrina, so that should give Americans a sense of scale, not to mention the destruction is spread across an entire region and not limited to a single city. It remains to be seen what will follow, but we are relatively safe here in Jakarta, since typhoons, like hurricanes, rarely cross the equator. More as events warrant. Sampai jumpa, Bernard Grover Managing Editor, Indonesia Bureau
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:45:01 +0000
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