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Video: Super Typhoon Yolanda Floods Hotel in Tacloban (2)

February 17, 2014 – 9:42 am
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Video: Super Typhoon Yolanda Floods Hotel in Tacloban

February 17, 2014 – 9:37 am
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Video Post: Temp Housing at Market after Typhoon Yolanda

February 16, 2014 – 3:29 pm
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After super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), people in Tacloban had to find shelter wherever they could. Many people moved into the spaces under and around the new fish market building. As far as I understand the history, this entire area used to consist of squatter housing. Then the people who lived there were moved out to make room for this new fish market. With their homes …

Video Post: Emergency Shelter after Typhoon Yolanda

February 16, 2014 – 2:06 pm
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Many thousands of homes were totally destroyed when super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) struck the Philippines on November 8, 2013. Many of those left homeless in Tacloban City immediately set about building a new place to stay after the typhoon. They sorted through the rubble and debris piles, pulling out whatever useable lumber and galvanized tin they could find and quickly hammered together some emergency shelter. …

Video Post: Copra Warehouse District after Typhoon Yolanda

February 16, 2014 – 1:17 pm
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In downtown Tacloban, there is a street with a number of copra warehouses. The street in this video runs alongside the harbor and is the back entrance to many of these warehouses. The cement walls of those buildings collapsed and resulted in all the rubble. The video was shot on December 7, 2013, about one month after the typhoon struck. Many of the streets in …

Video Post: Typhoon Yolanda Damage in Panpango, Tacloban

February 16, 2014 – 11:44 am
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This part of Tacloban City faces across the bay toward San Jose and the airport. As such, it was directly in line with the storm surge and the strong winds of the typhoon. Most of the houses along the shoreline were completely destroyed and the debris from those houses was carried up to the street that follows the shore. For a long time, the street …

Video Post: Super Typhoon Yolanda – Ships Blown Aground

February 15, 2014 – 1:02 pm
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Many large ocean-going ships were blown ashore in Tacloban by super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), which hit the Philippines on November 8, 2013. The sight of these ships and the destruction around them was so compelling that I returned to this area many times to take pictures. On this day, I hit the video button on my camera and let it run as I – very …

Video Post: Anibong after Super Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan

February 15, 2014 – 11:41 am
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This is a barangay called Anibong in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines. Before super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), this area was crowded with small houses made of either wood or cement with galvanized tin roofing. The houses were built on stilts over the water between cement walls that had been constructed out over the water from shore. These cement walls – a type of seawall or pier construction …