10 November 2013
Posted by Dan Satterfield
From James Gabrielle- Verallo on the city of Ormoc Facebook page,
Two videos you should see. It now seems the death toll will be in the thousands…perhaps the tens of thousands…
and the aftermath…
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HI Dan,
From what I gather from some of the reports was that the ground radar went down before this monster made landfall, there still estimating its speed at 195 miles per hour (MPH) which would put it up there with Hurricane’s Camille (1969) and Andrew (1992) in regards to Category 5 cyclonic storms making landfall. The big difference between this one and Camille will be the body count as Camille took an estimated 259 lives, this one looks like an excess of 10,000! With the radar going down we also won’t get an estimate on how many tornado’s came off of this storm. For these people the big challenge after the storm passes will not only be the clean-up but also the possible onslaught of water borne diseases (cholera, typhoid) and possibly stachytbotrys mold that can form on a structure’s cellulosic materials, and when brought to a dry state, can then become airborne and cause illnesses similar to Sick Building Syndrom.