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Video Post – Airport Road in Tacloban after Yolanda

February 14, 2014 – 5:29 pm
Airport Road Video Image

This video shows a bit of the destruction caused by super typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan along the road leading out to the airport in Tacloban. I was sitting on the top of a firetruck at the time with a team of firefighters. It was their job to go out and collect bodies. The team I was with that day collected 72 bodies. At the end of the …

Video – A Walk Around Grounded Ships in Tacloban

February 13, 2014 – 11:14 am
Ships blown ashore in Anibong during Super Typhoon Yolanda

Many large ships were blown ashore during super typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan in Tacloban. I went for a walk around a couple of these ships one day and shot this video.
 
 

Video – A Walk through Typhoon Yolanda Aftermath

February 13, 2014 – 9:03 am
Pampango Video One

I shot this video simply by holding my camera at my waist and walking – as best I could – through an area long the shore of Tacloban city. This entire are used to be nothing but houses, but they were almost all destroyed by the typhoon and accompanying storm surge. I shot the video on Deceber 8, 2013, a full month after the typhoon …

Photo Post: Confused Cookies?

February 12, 2014 – 10:14 am
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Perhaps these biscuits need a bit of therapy? I came across these lost and confused cookies in Tacloban, Philippines.
 

The Parade of Idiocy Continues

February 1, 2014 – 2:13 pm
A man in downtown Cebu sleeps on the street with his young child

Saturday February 1, 2014
6:15 a.m. Cebu City, Philippines
Room 406 Hallmark Hotel
An account of yesterday will, unfortunately, sound much like the accounts of all my days in Cebu. I went to shopping malls and couldn’t find the things I was looking for. But there were variations, so here I go:
I was up quite early, and I went out into Cebu to get something to eat. Unfortunately, …

Nearly Defeated by One Rusty Bolt

January 31, 2014 – 1:34 pm
A sign at a shopping mall in Cebu.

Friday January 31, 2014
5:00 a.m. Cebu, Philippines
Just to pick up the story from yesterday: I was sitting in Bo’s coffee shop in Park Mall waiting for the friendly people at Cycle Logic to fix my bike. I had asked the clerk to let me know when they had the grip shifter open so that I could see the insides. I honestly didn’t expect that to …

A Hotel Room of Despair and Creativity in Cebu

January 28, 2014 – 12:19 pm
The fixtures in my hotel room at the Hallmark hotel date from a long-lost era decades ago

Tuesday January 28, 2014
4:45 a.m. Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines
Getting out of bed this early might not be a wise idea, but I had woken up and I felt like having a cup of coffee. I’m fairly certain that I am not allowed to fire up my little Trangia cookstove inside this hotel room, but I’m careful and clean. I often do little things like this …

Photo Walkabout and Karaoke Horror

October 21, 2013 – 10:18 am
Young Girl in Legaspi

It’s 6:30 p.m., an unusual time for me to fire up the NEO, but I have been ambushed by the horror of the Philippines once more: karaoke. I don’t know how people in this country can live like this. I find the tension is like living on top of an armed nuclear weapon. You never know when the darn thing will go off. It can …