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Amazing pic, look how we'll defined it is?
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195MPH sustained, with 235 gusting.... Crazy. That's essentially being in the equivalent of tornadic wind speed for the duration of the typhoon. This is the strongest typhoon ever recorded.....ever.Comment
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(CNN) - As dawn broke Saturday in the Philippines, the devastation of Super Typhoon Haiyan was expected to become better known a day after the storm -- perhaps the strongest ever -- rampaged across the central isles of the archipelago.
An early report by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council indicated at least three people were killed, but there were widespread fears of a much higher death toll. At least seven people were hurt, according the council's report on Friday.
The destruction is expected to be catastrophic. Storm clouds covered the entire Philippines, stretching 1,120 miles -- equal to a distance between Florida and Canada. The deadly wind field, or tropical storm force winds, covered an area the size of Montana or Germany.
The typhoon first roared onto the country's eastern island of Samar at 4:30 a.m. Friday, flooding streets and knocking out power and communications in many areas of the region of Eastern Visayas, and then continued its march, barreling into five other Philippine islands.
Then, predawn Saturday, it headed toward Vietnam.
Haiyan weakened Saturday and was no longer a super typhoon, rather a typhoon with sustained winds of 145 mph (230 kph). But the storm could return to super typhoon status Saturday. The center of Haiyan will land again Sunday morning near the Vietnamese cities of Da Nang and Hue.
Philippine military helicopters were scheduled to take aerial surveys of the damage Saturday. Relief agencies in Manila were expected to begin traveling as long as 18 hours to reach the worst hit isles. Meanwhile, Haiyan was over the South China Sea on Saturday.
While delivering 195 mph winds with gusts reaching even 235 mph, Haiyan first landed near Dulag and Tacloban, flooding those coastal communities with a surge of water rising 40 to 50 feet, said CNN's Chad Myers.
Tacloban is the largest city in the Eastern Visayan Islands and was an important Allied logistical base during World War II, even serving as a temporary capital of the Philippines. But on Saturday, Tacloban was considered as among the areas worst hit by Haiyan, and authorities and relief agencies had no immediate information about its condition.
For purposes of comparison, Super Typhoon Haiyan packed a wallop on Philippine structures 3.5 times more forceful than the United States's Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which directly or indirectly killed 1,833 people and was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history at $108 billion, Myers said.Comment
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Typhoon Cobra in 1944 did more damage to Navy Task Force 38 than the Japanese!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Cobra_(1944)Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.Comment
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Man, I got out of that place in time!Comment
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My wife is from the Philippines; luckily her parents are north of Manila so they mainly got alot of rain and not much damage in their area.I don't like Republicans, but I really FUCKING hate Democrats.
Sex with an Asian woman is great, but 30 minutes later you're horny again.Comment
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Waiting for propellerhead to post up the pic of that black guy looting in the streets.Originally posted by MR EDDComment
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I'm from Guam and been to the PI a few times. These typhoons are normal there houses and buildings are built way better there to hold up to the storms. Not like here wood frame wrapped in bricks.Comment
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I like how it says the storm weakened to just 145 mph winds... yeah.Comment
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Lootie Loot!Comment
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[QUOTE=propellerhead;1193338]I saw him!
That guy sure does get around.Originally posted by MR EDDComment
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