Best of luck to all our Phillipine Friends over there.

[Master]

Hope they can rebuild their lives because that was a truly devastating storm.

[Kirkland Laing]

Hopefully they're checking in with us soon. The good news -- great news -- is that many fewer people died than was first estimated. At one point they were talking about tens of thousands dead.

[Xwetie]

Actually joined a helping program me and a friend going down to vietnam and phillie, right after new year, can go earlier because they had to order the shots...

[pacfan]

Thanks very much, ol' mate Andre and the rest of the gang, luv ya all. Luckily for us, the super storm missed us so we suffered just one window blown off. The forecast was that it was to pass just south of us, graze us a bit, but since these forecasts are usually not 100% accurate, I thought if it swerved just a bit north, we would be hit; luckily for us (and I say this with a tinge of guilt though), it swerved to the south.

Lady's and gentlemen, our country has just been hit by the strongest typhoon (hurricane) ever to hit land in the recorded history!

For me, it started when my partner called me to check out the coming storm she's been tracking on the net. So I went home and checked it out. Now I've been a storm tracker (I said tracker not chaser - no I don't chase storms) since I've started surfing the internet. So when I saw this one, I thought 'oh no, this is going to be really, really bad.' So I told my mate, 'hon's, brace yourself, the Philippines is in for a real, real trouble.' On the weather map I saw a near category 7 (assuming there was one) cyclone right near the land, the area called Guiaun, Samar province. I've never seen a storm this big about to make a landfall, nothing even near this - so you know what I must have felt. That's why just before it made landfall, I visited here and on 'Hurricane Sandy' thread, I made my farewell speech (now, I'm reserving that for Pac's fight, just in case). Now I'm sure few of my friends here found it odd for me to talk about the coming storm since I've never done so and typhoons are common in this part of the world. But now I guess you know why. So I took my hammer, some nails, a saw and what not, getting ready for the war with the winds...


Please donate, donate, donate, donate, donate, donate, donate, donate,donate...
thru your favorite charity or go to CNN.com, they have a place where you can make your donation for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan or Yolanda. Have a heart, our fellow pinoy victims sorely need 'em...

And thanks to CNN for the excellent coverage of the typhoon. I think if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have gotten as much foreign assistance that's coming our way. My deep gratitude...

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