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Typhoon Death Count Surpasses 10,000; People "Walk Like Zombies Looking For Food; Martial Law Imminent
When we previewed the initial "massive devastation" aftermath of typhoon Haiyan yesterday, when the casualties resulting from the strongest storm to ever make landfall were "only" 1200, we had a feelilng that the final tally would be far worse. And so it is: a day later, the incoming reports confirm that by the time the final death toll is calculated it will probably be one for the record books, because at last the dead had risen to a massive 10,000 and were increasing exponentially.
The latest tally comes from Reuters, according to which, "one of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines, a senior police official said on Sunday, with huge waves sweeping away coastal villages and devastating one of the main cities in the region." "We had a meeting last night with the governor and the other officials. The governor said, based on their estimate, 10,000 died," Soria told Reuters. "The devastation is so big."
"From a helicopter, you can see the extent of devastation. From the shore and moving a kilometer inland, there are no structures standing. It was like a tsunami," said Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas, who had been in Tacloban since before the typhoon struck the city. "I don't know how to describe what I saw. It's horrific."
Needless to say, Haiyan makes Sandy pale by comparison: 70 to 80 percent of structures in its path as it tore through Leyte province on Friday, said police chief superintendent Elmer Soria, before weakening and heading west for Vietnam.
"People are walking like zombies looking for food," said Jenny Chu, a medical student in Leyte. "It's like a movie." As rescue workers struggled to reach ravaged villages along the coast, where the death toll is as yet unknown, survivors foraged for food or searched for lost loved ones.
Witnesses and officials described chaotic scenes in Leyte's capital, Tacloban, a coastal city of 220,000 about 580 km (360 miles) southeast of Manila which bore the brunt, with hundreds of bodies piled along roads and pinned under wrecked houses.
The city lies in a cove where the seawater narrows, making it susceptible to storm surges.
The city and nearby villages as far as one kilometer (just over half a mile) from shore were flooded, leaving floating bodies and roads choked with debris from fallen trees, tangled power lines and flattened homes.
And just as in the case of Sandy, the biggest threat from the storm turned out to be not the winds but the water surge which gave the storm a tsunami-like feel and flooded all low-lying territories.
Most of the deaths appear to have been caused by surging sea water strewn with debris that many said resembled a tsunami, leveling houses and drowning hundreds of people in one of the worst disasters to hit the typhoon-prone Southeast Asian nation.
About 300 people died in neighboring Samar province, where Haiyan first hit land on Friday as a category 5 typhoon, with 2,000 missing, said a provincial disaster agency official.
Nearly 480,000 people were displaced and 4.5 million "affected" by the typhoon in 36 provinces, the national disaster agency said, as relief agencies called for food, water, medicines and tarpaulins for the homeless.
International aid agencies said relief efforts in the Philippines were stretched thin after a 7.2 magnitude quake in central Bohol province last month and displacement caused by a conflict with Muslim rebels in southern Zamboanga province.
And when disaster strikes poor nations, looting is sure to follow, as does martial law.
Looters rampaged through several stores in Tacloban, witnesses said, taking whatever they could find as rescuers' efforts to deliver food and water were hampered by severed roads and communications. A TV station said ATM machines were broken open.\
Mobs attacked trucks loaded with food, tents and water on Tanauan bridge in Leyte, said Philippine Red Cross chairman Richard Gordon. "These are mobsters operating out of there."
President Benigno Aquino said the government had deployed 300 soldiers and police to restore order and that he was considering introducing martial law or a state of emergency in Tacloban to ensure security. "Tonight, a column of armored vehicles will be arriving in Tacloban to show the government's resolve and to stop this looting," he said.
Aquino has shown exasperation at conflicting reports on damage and deaths and one TV network quoted him as telling the head of the disaster agency that he was running out of patience.
"How can you beat that typhoon?" said defense chief Voltaire Gazmin, when asked whether the government had been ill-prepared. "It's the strongest on Earth. We've done everything we can, we had lots of preparation. It's a lesson for us."
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Many tourists were stranded. "Seawater reached the second floor of the hotel," said Nancy Chang, who was on a business trip from China in Tacloban City and walked three hours through mud and debris for a military-led evacuation at the airport.
"It's like the end of the world."
Six people were killed and dozens wounded during heavy winds and storms in central Vietnam as Haiyan approached the coast, state media reported, even though it had weakened substantially since hitting the Philippines.
It is truly stunning just how brittle the stability of society becomes once the "just in time" amentites everyone takes for granted, disappear without a trace.
Worst of all, the Philippines could be just the beginning: Vietnam is next, as is the very densely populated region of southern China. "Vietnam authorities have moved 883,000 people in 11 central provinces to safe zones, according to the government's website."
Raw video of the storm via Bloomberg:
Finally, some additional photos of the aftermath.
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I had come away with the general take that this was a bad thing, but now we stand corrected, Population Bubble. Thanks.
"Man cannot make war on nature without making war on himself."
I don't see it so much as some intentional head-to-head battle in so much as I see it as hubris and ignorance, all centered (and because of it, coming to a head) around the notion that there can be perpetual growth within a finite environment.
BTW - The Philippines isn't necessarily "remote." One can see the exact same things in other "connected" countries: go south of the US border; doesn't require any horrendous mega-hour plane ride to reach there.
Google translate would help the philipinos read our suggestions, but I'm stumped how to get them enough iPads or get their data networks and power without spending any our own resources.
If radiation is killing Pacific fish, etc., that islanders depend on, double horror.
Already pushing the zombie metaphor too far. The zombies are in the Towne Cars in Manhattan and DC. The living dead are, almost literally, the ones in control. These are our brothers and sisters in the streets looking for a stray orange from a blown-over tree ...
May our future have more people like you in it.
Bamboo isn't that great in 150 mph wind
From Jeff Masters over at WeatherUnderground:
And add in the most destrutive force on the planet: water. Walls of water being smashed against stuff. That area has a lot more water around to pick up and dump: water on the leading edge, and water on the trailing edge, with little alteration of the storm's makeup because of there being only a small landmass to influence it.
Most of the world's population lives near coastlines. I'd think that all those who believe themselves amply prepared should include some provision for keeping afloat: a boat perhaps?
Is it really "looting" after something like this? What are the alternatives when they food supply chain has been completely cut off and everything is in ruins? What else can people do but try to find food and water wherever they can?
cannibalism
I think I'd call this "scavanging." FWIW - claan water is probably going to be a bigger issue in the short-term.
we offered to airlift some New Orelans cops to keep things under control but they said no
But I bet you that at least one person will say:
"You are doing a heckuva job brownie".....
ElvisDog
depends:
actually scavaging for food & clothing,
or gangs robbing aid trucks at gunpoint for black market price-gouging.
u cannot flee from the anger of tha gods!
next: murrica!
Bill Gates must be giddy right now.
Do you realize how much money he just saved in population reducing vaccines?
Those of you in down arrow camp may want to watch Bill himself explain why vaccines are necessary to reduce population.
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/122219/Bill_Gates_Admits_Vaccine...
Sorry, I couldn't make it through the ads; makes ZH look like an ad-free angel.
Yeah, it's pretty complicated.
You hit the link, then you click the little play arrow that points to the right.
It was confusing for me too. So, don't feel too retarded.
You very funny, Dr. Jones!
Tyler mentions Just In Time delivery methods as a contributing factor. Don't agree. Anything these people stored would've been wiped away.
Tyler said: "It is truly stunning just how brittle the stability of society becomes once the "just in time" amentites everyone takes for granted, disappear without a trace."
How do you get "Tyler mentions Just In Time delivery methods as a contributing factor" out of this?
How much food and fuel do you think was stockpiled locally, measured in days of consumption?
3? 4? I'll wager 7 tops....
How much food do you think was ruined in the storm?
It is amazing how shallow people think about things...
Is that you - Mr. I-love-AlGore-and-AGW-and-HATE-HATE-HATE the "reactionary and right wing Fox news" calling someone shallow?
You have drunk the kool-aid, inhaled the AlGore farts and you think your intellect and wisdom towers above other people's.
You're a sheep if anyone is a sheep. You just think you're a special sheep. Bleat bleat bleat Mr. Special SheepMeister.
Helluva rebuttal there big guy...
Not sure what Al has to do with the level of supplies in the Phillipines but you seem to think he does...
Just when you're starting to feel compassion from ZHers fuck-heads like this show up and spoil it. If only folks like that could be teleported into the middle of one of these places...
When the average income is perhaps a few hundred dollars a year "stockpiling" really isn't a reality. And, yes, from someone who has an eye to the world down there I'm fairly aware of what a fucking mess things become when water hits about 1/2 way up your first floor, swirling everything imaginable.
Ah, to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable... no greater joy! (until I realize that I'm fairly comfortable myself- ack!)
Prayers to the Philippines.
(Off Topic) Tylers, any chance we might get a french tax protest and Euro dump threat update?
Let the Fed give them just 1 billion from monthly POMO, probably a better investment.
But what does the fed get on its balance sheet in return for the FRN's? Actual junk? Better idea: the Filipinos could hypothecate their organs.
I can't post images but in comment #529 here
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2575
shows a stone church from 1718 blown away in Guiuan....
Edit: Needless to say, a stone building like this would have been deemed to be a "safe" shelter....
I'd asked my wife about all the concrete construction down there (though she's no structural engineer or can speak with authority on the engineering practices throughout the Phils, she's pretty smart) and she says that they DO use rebar. Concrete and cinder blocks without rebar are pretty vulnerable to shearing forces.
The first time I arrived in Manila I was struck by how much concete there was. My wife was struck by all the wood-stick homes here in NA. I suppose that when deforestation happens homes built on wood are a bit harder to come by. And, I suppose, that, even though they should be less brittle, wood structures might not fare as well as concrete ones when it comes to extreme forces*. NOTE: out in the provinces you can find more wood-based structures, coconut(? I think that's what my wife's mother's home was built out of, wood from coconut trees).
* I"d experienced winds in excess of 100mph once. I literally felt the wood-stick house (upstairs) bending. If it had been 200mph I doubt that, to the glee of many I'd suppose, I would be here today.
Just back from Jamaica, was very impressed by the "slums" along the Queens Highway, corrugated metal roofs, but the walls are cinder block and not too many houses where the surge can reach...
Live and Learn...
que the shamans telling us that its mother earth thats sending us a message and that we should sacrifice som lambs to appease the gods.
No, it's more like...cue Al Gore to start expounding how anthropogenic global warming is the cause of the typhoon and how everybody (except him and his buddies) has to stop consuming fossil fuels immediately in order to save the planet, etc. etc. The biggest typhoon in history caused by a minute increase in the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, ad nauseum. I'm already sending waves of hate from my brain toward that bloated pudgy fucker and all of his minions who will jump on this and say "See? We TOLDJA SO!"
You are going to need a baler for all that straw....
No fan of Al Gore. But also not a fan of attempting to use hate to solve problems. But then who knows, maybe it works with Physics.
Prefer to BS your way through?
I'm not the one who negged you, but I will reply. Who said I was using hate to solve problems? I'm using hate, but it's not solving anything. ;) If I had any idea how to solve Al Gore, I would be typing that up for your consideration.
Al Gore is the very least of our problems...
Not that Al has not made a few wrong statements, e.g. his original stance on Ethanol...
If you think otherwise, you are incapable of distinguishing between the message and the messenger...
Oh, I can distinguish between the messenger and the message perfectly fine. I think the message is a load of horseshit, too. But seeing as how Al Gore has chosen to make himself the face of the AGW campaign, he is the one who wears the bullseye for the oppositional camp.
Wrong, the reactionary rightwing led by Fox News went out of their way to make Gore the face of Global Warming....
You got it bassackwards...
If you think resource constraints and Global warming are bullshit, you are deluding yourself...
You need to check the facts on CO2 and global warming (with an open mind) and you'll see that Big Al is full of $h!t.
Coming from someone with the handle "Village-idiot", this is truly rich...
Who says that there is no truth in advertising?
Edit: BTW, when I want to learn about C02 and climate in general I tend to seek out Climate Scientists. Not politicians, no matter how well informed and intentioned they may be...
Maybe that is your problem, you listen to the equivalent of auto mechanics when you are getting an opinion on heart by-pass techniques as opposed to a cardio-vascular surgeon....
Al, like most politicians, is indeed a hypocritical whore
Now please tell me what the world energy corporations are,
and explain who has the motive to lie
and if both do
given the subject matter
why you don't turn toward data, the world of scientists, and oh, the world around you
to see which lies are the largest
(and the Carbon Tax proves nothing either way on the science, just corrupt govt. bastards trying to make a buck, bastards who also bend over and start wars for energy companies and banks - what else is new)
Re: my post above. Apparently hatred doesn't help with an understanding of physics, or critical thinking, or history or...................
"I wonder if Al Gore can see the Philippines from his California Uber-Mansion?"
Who the fuck cares....
Um, ugh! "Al Gore bad"
It's another one of those knee-jerk phrases/words/names. Yeah, Party Pussies like to take every opportunity to stir shit.
First, Shaman wouldn't sacrifice a nice wool-bearing animal like you brutish louts. Second, they'd brew you some nice Yagi and have you meditate for awhile on your condition while tripping until you found your power animal and experienced bodily transference indistringuishable from reality all the while singing in unison with the rest of the tribe, as if you'd need the point of your interconnectivity driven home any deeper.
I'm sorry, was that your Volvo idling in the garage? Breathe deep, simpleton.
ohh i get it you want me dead. the carbonmonoxide is supposes to bind to the hemoglobin and prevent the transport of oxigene. how nice
Nah, the world needs deltas, but if I were you, I'd want to be that way.
Stay blue!
I nearly got blown off a mountain with only 100mph winds, I can't even imagine 200+ mph....I have no idea what to do in those winds or what would constitute survivable shelter....
Agree, I've only expereinced 85 mph winds and could not sleep all night - thought the house was gonna blow over.
You look for the most secure, tightly anchored thing you can and strap yourself to it and "pray" that you don't get dislodged or impaled by debris.
I once was a short distance away from Mt Washington, up in New Hampshire. It had(?) the world's record for the highest wind speed ever recorded on land- 231mph. As that was back in 1934 (the recording, not my visit!) one could take that with a plus-or-minus. Anyway, it was soon after the observatory was re-opened on a more permanent basis that the record was recorded. The logs are pretty interesting to read:
http://www.mountwashington.org/about/visitor/recordwind.php
Keep in mind that the folks there were pretty much outfitted for extreme weather, and being paid to be there (I'm figuring).
Mt. Washington.
We drove there in a 72 Ford LTD station wagon.
400 2 Barrel, pretty damn fast.
There were spots with NO guardrails and from the passenger side I stuck my head out the window and stared down a gigantic ravine, we were inches away from the edge.
Are we Close to the Edge. Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51oPKLSuyQY
Every Libertarian in the US should immediately be sent to the Phillipines so they can experience true anarchy.
... and every Liberal in the US should immediately be sent to the Gulag? i dont get it
doublé
No, but I do wonder if they're opposed to aid on the basis of their beliefs in free markets. Will the Phillipines come back stronger with no "intervention" from the West (not like we'll ever find out, no way to take a baseline on that hypothesis)? Or is it better to help the 40th largest economy in the world, in the interest of the global economy? If yes, then why doesn't the same argument hold true at smaller scales like a broke brother with an EBT card?
Easy. We help the Filipinos one time get back on their feet from this storm.
We've been helping the "broke brothers with an EBT card" for 6 generations and not only are they not back on their feet, they don't want to get on their feet and they demand more and more and blame our culture for all their problems. Solve today's problem for them, tomorrow a new problem. Never ending problems it seems, never any growth FROM them out of the various levels of Detroit they find themselves in. Occasional success stories are the exception.
Watch the Filipinos, a hard-working, happy people recover from this and our broke brothers with their justice brother "leadership" still whining and leaning on someone, anyone to do something more for them.
When does it end? History has one recent and ongoing example for us...South Africa.
You that guy that lost an election for saying Makaka? I see 'low achievers' across the color spectrum, yourself included!
Rebut the facts. I was responding to your own query about foreign aid vs EBT for "the brothers". Where does it end? How? Race has nothing to do with it except that there happens to be one that's claimed victim status unceasingly since the democrat party figured out that would be the way to keep them under control.
Teaching fishing beats handing out taxpayer funded fish. It improves pride and self esteem, those two attributes the dems and their wards seem to crave, and it improves productive society by men asserting ownership over their own destiny. If they are not taught self reliance and standards of behavior with regard to productive endeavor, there will not be enough taxpayer funding on earth to pay for the dependence.
As far as being a low achiever, you have no idea just how lowly I've achieved so please try to keep it under your hat.
Wow Mike, you wield a mighty big brush with which to paint a wide swath of sterotyped assumptions/generalizations. May you yourseelf be spared the same.
Akarc, how are my statements "sterotyped assumptions/generalizations"? Everything I said is true and historically verifiable concerning EBT. The South African debacle is playing out on the world stage and the list of successes there are exactly one: "We won the election." It's been downhill from there.
Please keep in mind this is merely a quick response to a query, not a dissertation on the welfare state, great society or the complexions and numbers of each participant/recipient. The questioner I was responding to specifically asked about Filipino foreign aid WRT further EBT for "the brothers".
Political correctness has twisted the meaning of things such that we can't speak the truth without seeming to be Hitler reincarnate. The whole point of ZH is the finance of society, for ill or good, and how it it reaching an end point with catastrophic effect.
When she blows, I'd rather have more people acquainted with the truth and fortified with useful knowledge than pumped full of feel-good hopium and left with promises that a broke society will be unable and maybe even unwilling to keep.
I appreciate your wish that "I be spared the same" but if things degenerate based on a failed currency, a massively indebted gov and a society hobbled by uninspired leadership then we will all feel the pain. None shall be spared the excesses of the last several decades of financial and social engineering.
Do you even know the definition of anarchy, you douchenozzle? They still have a government over there, ya know. The typhoon didn't magically reach down and drown all the politicians.
Why not to a bombed-out village in Pakistan with charred children's bodies laying around so they can experience the Global Force for Good?
Why not to an eminent-domain-enabled Walmart so they can experience the success of coercive government?
Why not to the house of a dead pothead shot in the head by a crazed SWAT drug warrior to experience the success of another War?
Why not to the office of a grinning billionaire bankster from a failed bank that was bailed out by tax victims' dollars so they can experience economic justice?
Why not to NSA headquarters to find out how government is working for itself to experience the slipping away of privacy?
Hell, why not to Hiroshima to experience what benevolent Organized Government can do?
Why not.......why not.....why not.....why.....
Why is there chaos if the Philippines has a government?
Have YOU ever been there?
"Anarchy" exists every day down there, without these kinds of events. Anarchy rules the transportation down there, and if it didn't everything would stack up and come to a complete and utter halt. Traffic signs and lights mean little when things get really stuffed- everyone is trying to find an open spot in order to keep thing moving.
So, as someone with "libertarian" leanings I'd have to FACTLY state that I HAVE been down there and I HAVE experienced "anarchy." Do you want a more thorough report? (for that you'd have to compensate me for my time, otherwise you'd be just wasting my valuable time)
Still Japs hiding in the mountains too - waiting...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/27/japan.secondworldwar
Every Filipino should get the nooses ready for their elected f*ck nuts. Look at those houses!!! Corrugated iron roofs and paper thin walls! Philippines is a corrupt crony dump, America is not far off. Lesson? F*ck governments.
Thank you.
Send Chris Christie there to film a few commercials and sing the Stronger than the Storm song.....
C'mon that would only save a few of them for a few days.
I'm all for that plan, but only if we don't have to take him back when he's done singing.
Looks as bad as the cumulative effect Washington D.C. is having on the United States of America.
I'm sick and tired of people tossing around and misusing the term 'martial law'.
Real martial law can only be declared by the military itself when the civilian government abdicates or is forcefully removed from power.
Anything else is not real martial law. In fact, civilian governments that are still in power who order troops to opress the people and enact pseudo-martial law often risk getting overthrown by the military... in which case you have real martial law.
Krugman is jizzing in his pants...
It was funny the first time, but this is probabaly the 57th time this one liner has been posted...
I suggest working on some new material...
Ang pangit.
My prayers and heartfelt condolences go out to the people of the Philippines.
My prayers and heartfelt condolences go out to the people of the Philippines.
Thankfully I do not have a TeeVee in the house. Silence except for birds tweeting in the backyard. I have no doubt Amerikan MSM is all over this like a blowfly slathering digestive juices over its meal . . .
Katrina and Super Storm Sandy were severe thunder storms compared to this monster.
Prayers up for the dead and survivors.
You are showing your ignorance, Katrina, even if it had not hit NO, was a historically strong storm that resulted in the largest ever measured storm surge in the Atlantic Basin... At the time it was the 4th most intense storm, (mb of Hg) ever measured in the Atlantic basin...
Sandy was very special because of the size and because of where it hit, the Northeastern Atlantic seaboard... In size it was the largest hurricane recorded in the Atlantic Basin... Hell, there were 18 ft waves hitting the "seawall" along Lakeshore drive in Chicago when Sandy landed in NJ....
and then there was Yasi - huge
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-02-04/alice-springs-feeling-effects-of-yasi/1930448
Yes, where something makes landfall has quite a bit of significance.
Had Haiyan hit Manila I'm pretty sure it could have been measured as being far and away the most destructive natural force ever to occur (in modern recorded history). Not that this is any relief to those who were farther south and in the path...
The previous supertyphoon (local name "Ruping") came almost right over Cebu City (2.5 million people) and also did enormous damage. Power was out for a month. In fact, the center came right over our compound and blew off a roof, beams and rafters and all, like an exploding paper bag, when the wind direction changed as the eye passed over us. The 180 km/h winds were truly scary.
This time Hayan/Yolanda veered a bit further north. If that had not happened, and Cebu had been hit, you would have looked at a world-scale disaster.
Our place escaped just with fallen trees and an opening ripped into the roof. Pffff...
I'm surprised the news is not already much worse, and it may yet be much worse. If that kind of storm hit say Los Angeles, there wouldn't be much left. I guess the Phillipines must be somewhat better prepared for typhoons to have done even this well.
There's really no way to prepare for these kinds of things. Massive evacuation is about the only direction.
Because they experience around 20 or so typhoons per year down there they DO have some awareness. But there's only so much "high ground," and transportation is a bit of a struggle...
My wife is from the outskits of Manila, where there is pretty regular flooding: they rebuild the roads every 5 or 6 years; houses get rebuilt on a regular basis. All is constantly sinking. Lots under sea level. The city has various floodgate systems in place but they're more like statues than functional apparati: much to due to corruption and human hubris; but, really, this is all just a losing battle anyway- everyone just manages until they can no longer.
Not to claim any casual connection but September was the hottest month on record (since 1880) in the Southern Hemisphere:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/SH.Ts+dSST.txt
And it ain't even close as the previous high from 1996 was shattered by 0.06 C or almost 8% ....
Nice and cool in the Gulf of Mexico aka toilet bowl. What comes around goes around. I'm no climatologist (I don't make up science when I can help it) but weather varies as far as I can tell.
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-climate.htm
Just to add to the educational lessons... the Phillippines is in the northern hemisphere. But, anyway, typhoons are all about significant temperature differences between ocean water and air.
Well aware that the PIs are in the NH....
One other major factor is wind shear....
Haiyan was quite interesting in that it was so close to the equator where the Coriolis force is de minimus. It is only one of a handful of storms reaching Cat 5 so close to the equator...
As always, appreciate the info that you provide here. (my note was to ensure that others didn't jump on it and twist it into some sort of proof that it's all a fabrication from Al Gore zombies)
Close to the equator... there's a reason why they refer to areas around there as "the doldrums," no fan to true sailors (of the sailing vessel kind).
October will most likely appear as a hottest on record as well - we had a run of almost two weeks of 30+ degrees celcius (86 fahrenheit) at the start of October (Sydney/Central Coast/Newcastle area of Australia).
The hottest day of September (only JUST changed seasons) was 41.6 celcius, or 106 fahrenheit.
Here's the September 2013 data for Australia: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/mwr/aus/mwr-aus-201309.pdf
Hey stackers-send some fiat to Samaratin's Purse.
Franklin does a good job, but he can't do it alone.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/super-typhoone-haiyan-response/
I am detecting a pattern here, again from Jeff Masters over at WU....
And more bad news:
Tropical disturbance 90W will bring more heavy rain to the Philippines
This just might be a great opportunity to show the benefits of ZIRP & QE.
Might even be a better time to sell your Florida real estate...
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/09/3742641_p3/rising-sea-levels-falling-real.html
I think that those that get their science from Faux News will be left holding a very wet bag....
BUT! You need to think things optimistically! Wells will be cheaper because you won't have to drill as deep! (not that water tables aren't already high in Florida) </sarc>
Funny you mention that:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620
They are committing $200,000,000 over the next few years to address exactly that problem...
Talk about a complete waste of taxpayers money....
These kinds of disasters need to happen to Somalia and Haiti!
Please feel free to sign up to report from there of such events.
Proves that humans still cannot construct adequate storm proof housing or bunkers.
Very sad if you have faith in your leaders and elected a-holes.
Thoughts will the families
New Orleans wouldn't have been the epic tragedy it was if it wasn't for Mayor Nagen and his chocolate city packed full of generations of ignorant welfare recipients.
How trollish of you....
the earth is in labor-- another birth pang
wait, people aren't buying their way to safety using bitcoin? Oh right, no fucking electricity, computers or network means shitcoinz have no value where money is most needed.
There is an Android app for that.....