A Violent 'Super Typhoon' Is Due To Hit Japan And South Korea This Weekend Joshua BerlingerSep. 14, 2012, 3:35 PMA violent super typhoon in the North Indian Ocean, named "Sanba" has begun to pick up steam and could start to affect residents of Japan and South Korea as early as Saturday morning. Winds have climbed up to 178 mph, which would make it the equivalent of powerful category 5 Hurricane, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. One resident said gusts were nearing 222 mph. Sanba is currently being tracked traveling north, and if it continues onwards, it could be...
A Violent 'Super Typhoon' Is Due To Hit Japan And South Korea This Weekend ("Sanba")
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Palau is Set to Get Lashed By A “One in A Million” Typhoon
The air that now blankets Palau is warm, dry, still, and disturbingly ominous. Palaus sky has reason to brood for in less than 24 hours Typhoon Bopha is predicted to make landfall on the tiny nation of the Republic of Palau with a near direct hit. This typhoon has been securing strength and intensity while at sea and is expected to be a monster typhoon with a violent entry. As of 4am on December 2, 2012, this typhoon is predicted to sustain 150-mph winds and 180-mph gusts when it reaches Palau on early morning Monday. If that were not enough,...
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Pictures: Typhoon Bopha Takes Detour — Palau Is Spared
In what seems a miracle of mercy, Palau has been spared the full wrath of Typhoon Bopha. While it wailed and howled and sent piercing noises through the trees and outside of our windows, at the very last minute the Typhoon turned west and its path jogged south of Palau. Early reports have the Typhoon passing more than 50 miles south of Koror, the nations city-centre. Surprisingly despite its thunderous whistle, there was very little rain. It is early morning here in Palau and as of yet, it has been difficult to communicate within Palau because the phone lines are...
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Stark Evidence of US, British Naval Decline
Is it actually possible that, as you read this, the United States Navy has only one supercarrier battle group at sea? Read on - and be amazed. Look no farther than these two news items, both from today's Sunday Times of London, to see the effect of two decades of shrinkage in the size of the United States Navy and the retreat of the Royal Navy from the high seas: For the first time in two centuries, British businessmen and others have formed a private navy to protect shipping off the pirate-ridden coast of Somali on the Horn of...
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Typhoon – the best is yet to come
Typhoon  the best is yet to come After missing out in IndiaÂs MMRCA contest, a combination of private funding, demanding export customers and high-level political backing means Eurofighter Typhoon is now set to unlock its true multi-role potential. TIM ROBINSON reports from BAE Systems in Warton. Artwork of Typhoon equipped with CFTs and Storm Shadow missiles. (Eurofighter) Just over a year ago BAE Systems and its Eurofighter partners faced a bitter blow. IndiaÂs high-profile MMRCA fighter contest saw the Typhoon pipped at the post by Rafale. Meanwhile, job cuts in the UK and the high-profile BAE-EADS merger that fell...
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Strongest typhoon of the year slams Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - One of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded slammed into the Philippines early Friday, and one weather expert warned, "There will be catastrophic damage." The U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center shortly before Typhoon Haiyan's landfall said its maximum sustained winds were 314 kilometers per hour (195 mph), with gusts up to 379 kilometers per hour (235 mph).
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Philippine News Seems To Be Knocked Out
I frequent ABS/CBN (Philippines) frequently and there appears to be no further information since yesterday
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Typhoon Haiyan makes Sandy, Katrina look like weak cousins
What may be the fiercest typhoon in recorded history smashed into the Philippines early Friday morning, carrying winds that make Superstorm Sandy look like a weak relative. Even Hurricane Katrina, the modern measure of natures disastrous force on the United States, pales when compared to the punch and expected devastation from Typhoon Haiyan. According to the latest report, Haiyan, also known as Yolanda in the Philippines, was packing winds in excess of 200 mph as it homed in on the island nation in the western Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center said maximum sustained winds in the...
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Philippines typhoon leaves an estimated 1,000 dead in one coastal town alone, report says
One of the most powerful storms on record devastated the central Philippines, reportedly killing an estimated 1,000 people in one town alone and leaving the airport in the hard-hit city of Tacloban in shambles. The Philippine Red Cross told Reuters that based on reports it estimates at least 1,000 dead in Tacloban, which is located about 360 miles southeast of Manila, and 200 in Samar Provice.
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Philippine super typhoon kills at least 10,000, official says
One of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines province of Leyte, a senior police official said on Sunday, with coastal towns and the regional capital devastated by huge waves. Super typhoon Haiyan destroyed about 70 to 80 percent of the area in its path as it tore through the province on Friday, said chief superintendent Elmer Soria, a regional police director. Haiyan, a category 5 typhoon that churned through the Philippine archipelago in a straight line from east to west, packing wind gusts of around 275 kph (170 mph), weakened significantly...
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Death toll after Philippines typhoon could reach 10,000, according to local officials
Authorities expect a very high number of fatalities after one of the strongest typhoons on record devastated central Philippines, cutting communications and severely damaging an airport in one of the hardest-hit regions. A senior regional police official and a city administrator in the typhoon-ravaged Tacloban city in the central Philippines say the death toll there could reach 10,000 people, according to the Associated Press. Regional police chief Elmer Soria said he was briefed by Leyte provincial Gov. Dominic Petilla on Saturday and told there were about 10,000 deaths on the island, mostly by drowning and from collapsed buildings. Tacloban city...
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Anyone hear from PI Freepers yet?
That terrible storm which hit the Philippines must have affected a lot of expats as well as the natives. Some of those expats are Freepers. Has anyone got an update so we know if they are all safe? We even had at least one Prepper living there, hope he bugged out safely. Prayers go out to all of them.
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More than 10,000 feared dead after Philippines typhoon
Tacloban 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...
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Typhoon deaths climb into thousands in Philippines (10,000 just in one city!)
TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) - Corpses hung from trees, were scattered on sidewalks or buried in flattened buildings - some of the 10,000 people believed killed in one Philippine city alone by ferocious Typhoon Haiyan that washed away homes and buildings with powerful winds and giant waves. As the scale of devastation became clear Sunday from one of the worst storms ever recorded, officials projected the death toll could climb even higher when emergency crews reach parts of the archipelago cut off by flooding and landslides. Looters raided grocery stores and gas stations in search of food, fuel and water as...
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Starvation and fear in the land laid waste by 200mph typhoon that killed at least 10,000
My husband tied us together but still we got separated among the debris. I saw many people drowning, screaming and going under... I havent found my husband. Despite mass burials, the dead remain piled by roads and trapped under wreckage. Families clawing at the ruins to find survivors or food were overpowered by the reek of rotting bodies. Village councillor and father-of-four Edward Gualberto said he stepped on corpses as he took food from the remains of their homes. He added: I am a decent person. But if you have not eaten in three days, you do shameful things to...
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Super typhoon Haiyan aims at Philippines; 'significant loss of life' predicted
190 mph winds; 230 mph gusts. Thousands of villagers fled as the most powerful storm on the planet this year approached the Philippines on Thursday.
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Philippine Typhoon Survivor Recounts: Daughter’s last words: ‘Ma, just let go… Save yourself’
TACLOBAN CITYHigh school teacher Bernadette Tenegra, 44, would never forget the last words of her daughter. Ma, just let go. Save yourself, said the girl, whose body was pierced by wooden splinters from houses crushed by Supertyphoon Yolanda. I was holding her and I kept telling her to hang on, that I was going to bring her up. But she just gave up, said Tenegra, her face contorted in grief. The sun was shining only hours after the deadly landfall of the monster typhoon, casting a clearer light on the misery that had descended upon the city on Friday and...
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Amid gruesome typhoon scenes, aid trickles in (Philippines. US Marines on scene)
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) - Typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands faced a daunting relief effort that had barely begun Monday, as bloated bodies lay uncollected and uncounted in the streets and survivors pleaded for food, water and medicine. Police guarded stores to prevent people from hauling off food, water and such non-essentials as TVs and treadmills, but there was often no one to carry away the dead - not even those seen along the main road from the airport to Tacloban, the worst-hit city along the country's remote eastern seaboard.....
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Hulk Actor Claims Oil Causes Typhoons
Hulk not very smart. Wait. Weâre going to stop typhoons? With solar panels and windmills? I doubt even the Incredible Hulk can pull that one off.Iâm starting to have the uncomfortable feeling that a lot of liberal Warmists now believe that weather began around the same time as the internal combustion engine and the smokestack and that if we just get rid of them, the gods of Global Warming will be appeased and the terrible winds and torrential rains will cease.In Mark Ruffaloâs world, there were no typhoons before the industrial revolution. And the typhoon now was caused by the...
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Philippines delegate refuses to eat until action on climate change 'madness'
<p>A Philippine conference delegate has vowed to refuse food until concrete action is taken to slow climate change, blaming it for the "unprecedented, unthinkable and horrific" devastation of Super Typhoon Haiyan.</p>
<p>Addressing other delegates at the first day of the United Nations' 19th Conference of the Parties in Warsaw, Poland, Philippine climate change commissioner Naderev Sano said impact of the "hell-storm" had been "colossal."</p>
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