Thursday December 19, 2013 Day 43 Typhoon Yolanda Not proofed – Went to fire station at 6:45 to see off the American firefighters, but they were already gone; they’d left at four in the morning to make sure of catching their c-130 to Manila – – dropped by Hayward to…
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Day 41 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Walk Around Magallanes
Wednesday December 18, 2013 Day 42 Typhoon Yolanda Not proofed – Went for a walk to the area around Mark’s house with my camera; I walked as far as Edwin’s house and then stopped and turned around; that was long enough – – took some great pictures of the new…
Day 40 Super Typhoon Yolanda – Bike Ride to Tanauan
Tuesday December 17, 2013 Day 41 Typhoon Yolanda – Got on my bike and set off with my camera; intended to go to the coast road on the way out to the MacArthur memorial; on the way, I ran into the firefighters and Amy; I stopped and hung out…
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Day Seventeen – Super Typhoon Yolanda
Yesterday was a day for public urination. No matter where I went, which street I went down, which corner I turned, I came across a man sending out a splendid stream of bright yellow liquid. That’s not uncommon, of course. There aren’t thousands of “Don’t Urinate Here” signs all over…
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Day Thirteen – Super Typhoon Yolanda
I finally encountered my first Canadians among the relief organizations. They consisted, to my joy, of a group of four people with cadaver-sniffing dogs. The four dogs are large, beautiful animals of all different breeds. I was sitting with the BFP team when the Canadians returned from a mission with…
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Day Eleven – Super Typhoon Yolanda
My experience of the typhoon continues to deepen, as yesterday I had the opportunity to go out with a Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) team as they retrieved bodies. Members of the BFP are staying at this pension house with me, and it was they that they suggested I go…
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Day Nine – Super-Typhoon Yolanda
It rained again throughout the night and the morning yesterday. That kept me in and around the pension house. When the sky cleared in the early afternoon, I finally set off with my camera to explore the other side of the Tacloban shoreline and make my way up to the…