sinag:theatlantic:In Focus: Typhoon BophaLast week, the southern Philippines was struck by Typhoon B
sinag:theatlantic:In Focus: Typhoon BophaLast week, the southern Philippines was struck by Typhoon Bopha, the strongest tropical cyclone to ever hit the island of Mindanao. Bopha made landfall as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 160 mph (260 km/h), flattening coastal villages, wiping out banana plantations, and causing mudslides and flooding. At the moment, the number of deaths has reached nearly 650, the number of missing is still near 800, and another 400,000 have been displaced by the storm. Collected here are images from the affected islands, as rescue and recovery workers continue to search through debris in fields choked with trees, boulders, and mud. See more. [Images: Reuters, AP, Getty]Just this afternoon, a friend of mine who lives in Mindanao posted about how several hundred local fishermen were missing. So many deaths, so many missing, and the numbers keep climbing.Please help and signal boost if you can. -- source link