Super Typhoon Haiyan

[Octavusprime]

One of the top 5 biggest Typhoons ever recorded hitting the Philippians as we speak. Positive thought and prayer for those living in the path of this Category 5 storm. Luckily it will miss Manilla but it will be devastating regardless.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weathe...rious/19561621

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wpgiO63ohJg

[Bubu]

Thanks mate. My friend just called, said its already signal number 4 there, my origial hometown. I worried for my parents and love ones. thanks for the prayers

[Bubu]

"Super Typhoon HAIYAN (YOLANDA) has turned into a 305 km/hr howler...and is considered as the most powerful tropical cyclone ever to develop since Super Typhoon Tip of October 1979...moving closer to Eastern Visayas...likely to make landfall over Eastern Leyte or Southern Samar after sunrise today."

it has now turned into a monster typhoon never experience this in my entire life. Can we have some help from the weather manipulators please.

thanks

[Kimberley]

Was going to post this also...Much love to these dear people!!! Sending protection and love! 195 miles per hour winds...yikes...

Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever seen, hit the Philippines with record force

http://qz.com/144734/super-typhoon-h...e-philippines/

[heretogrow]

Bubu and everyone else affected, sending prayers and love your way. May all be safe and out of harms way!

Much Love to you and those in its path,
Julia

[ponda]

Super Typhoon Haiyan has made landfall. According to PAGASA, Haiyan came ashore at 4:40 am local time (20:40 UTC) November 7, 2013 near Guiuan, on the Philippine island of Samar. Fourty minutes before landfall, Guiuan reported sustained 10-minute average winds of 96 mph, with a pressure of 977 mb. Contact has since been lost with the city. Three hours before landfall, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) assessed Haiyan’s sustained winds at 195 mph, gusting to 235 mph, making it the 4th strongest tropical cyclone in world history. Satellite loops show that Haiyan weakened only slightly, if at all, in the two hours after JTWC’s advisory, so the super typhoon likely made landfall with winds near 195 mph. The next JTWC intensity estimate, for 00Z UTC November 8, about three hours after landfall, put the top winds at 185 mph. Averaging together these estimates gives a strength of 190 mph an hour after landfall. Thus, Haiyan had winds of 190 - 195 mph at landfall, making it the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in world history. The previous record was held by the Atlantic's Hurricane Camille of 1969, which made landfall in Mississippi with 190 mph winds.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html



Latest image: http://www.climatex.ph/radar/latest_CEB_overlay.png



http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floa...W_floater.html





Hopefully it will ease down very soon

[sheme]

I am visualizing the raising up of this great storm so high that it leave contact with the earth- when and if it lands again it will be through the weather weapons used by men and they are destroyed.

prayers for the beautiful people.

[doodah]

I have joined in working to diminish this terrible storm. I'm asking the Spirits of the Wind to lift the storm off the land, calm the winds, and disperse the storm over the sea, without creating tsunamis or tidal surge onland.

Bless the people and animals in these islands!

[Ammit]

Such destruction, my heart goes to all hit by this storm.

[Wind]

http://rt.com/news/philippines-thous...ared-dead-489/

How incredibly sad, everyone affected by this are in my thoughts and prayers...

[Rocky_Shorz]

sorry, if this wasn't such a tragedy I'd have some great lines for that pic... the only way I can face these tragedies day after day is by finding moments of humor...



do we have any members in the areas about to be hit?


the next wave of energy is about to feed this storm...

[KiwiElf]

More than 10,000 feared dead after Philippines typhoon
AFP Updated November 10, 2013, 10:23 pm

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/1...d-philippines/

Tacloban (Philippines) (AFP) - The death toll from a super typhoon that decimated entire towns in the Philippines could soar well over 10,000, authorities warned Sunday, making it the country's worst recorded natural disaster.

The horrifying estimates came as rescue workers appeared overwhelmed in their efforts to help countless survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan, which sent tsunami-like waves and merciless winds rampaging across a huge chunk of the archipelago on Friday.

Police said they had deployed special forces to contain looters in Tacloban, the devastated provincial capital of Leyte, while the United States announced it had responded to a Philippine government appeal and would send military help.

"Tacloban is totally destroyed. Some people are losing their minds from hunger or from losing their families," high school teacher Andrew Pomeda, 36, told AFP, as he warned of the increasing desperation of survivors.

"People are becoming violent. They are looting business establishments, the malls, just to find food, rice and milk... I am afraid that in one week, people will be killing from hunger."

Authorities were struggling to even understand the sheer magnitude of the disaster, let alone react to it, with the regional police chief for Leyte saying 10,000 people were believed to have died in that province alone.

"We had a meeting last night with the governor and, based on the government's estimates, initially there are 10,000 casualties (dead)," Chief Superintendent Elmer Soria told reporters in Tacloban.

"About 70 to 80 percent of the houses and structures along the typhoon's path were destroyed."

On the neighbouring island of Samar, a local disaster chief said 300 people were killed in the small town of Baser.

He added another 2,000 were missing there and elsewhere on Samar, which was one of the first areas to be hit when Haiyan swept in from the Pacific Ocean with maximum sustained winds of 315 kilometres an hour.

Dozens more people were confirmed killed in other flattened towns and cities across a 600-kilometre (370-mile) stretch of islands through the central Philippines.

Deadliest natural disaster

The Philippines endures a seemingly never-ending pattern of deadly typhoons, earthquakes, volcano eruptions and other natural disasters.

This is because it is located along a typhoon belt and the so-called Ring of Fire, a vast Pacific Ocean region where many of Earth's earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.

However, if the feared death toll of above 10,000 is correct, Haiyan would be the deadliest natural disaster ever recorded in the Philippines.

Until Haiyan, the deadliest disaster in the Philippines was in 1976, when a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated the Moro Gulf on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people.

Haiyan set other apocalyptic-style records with its winds making it the strongest typhoon in the world this year, and one of the most powerful ever recorded.

Witnesses in Tacloban recalled waves up to five metres (17 feet) high surging inland, while aerial photos showed entire neighbourhoods destroyed with trees and buildings flattened by storm surges that reached deep inland.

"The effects are very similar to what I have seen in a tsunami rather than a typhoon," the Philippine country director of the World Food Program, Praveen Agrawal, who visited Tacloban, told AFP.

"All the trees are bent over, the bark has been stripped off, the houses have been damaged. In many cases they have collapsed."

In Washington, the Pentagon announced that US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel had responded to a request from the Philippines for military aid.

"Secretary Hagel has directed US Pacific Command to support US government humanitarian relief operations in the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan," it said.

"The initial focus includes surface maritime search and rescue, medium-heavy helicopter lift support, airborne maritime search and rescue, fixed wing lift support and logistics enablers."

United Nations leader Ban Ki-moon also pledged that UN humanitarian agencies would "respond rapidly to help people in need".

Ban is "deeply saddened by the extensive loss of life" and devastation caused by Haiyan, said UN spokesman Martin Nesirky in a statement.

Haiyan moved out of the Philippines and into the South China Sea on Saturday, from where it tracked towards Vietnam.

Although it weakened out at sea, more than 600,000 people were evacuated in Vietnam ahead of its expected landfall on Monday morning.

[heretogrow]

Starting the morning offering up heartfelt prayers of healing to the dear souls, living and those that have moved on, from this terrible disaster. Much love to the people affected by this devastation and strife. May those who survived find safety, shelter, food and comfort. May they receive all that they need...

Much love to you,
Julia