5 months on, life remains a struggle in Tacloban Coconut trees used to remind me of languid beach vacations. Not anymore since my first visit to Tacloban City in the Philippines. Just after daybreak on Nov 8 last year, the strongest typhoon ever recorded made landfall here. Over the next three hours, a tsunami-like wall of water measuring over 10 metres in height slammed inland and drowned thousands. Taclobans once thriving coconut industry was left in ruins. Of the trees still left standing, their fronds no longer wave but stick out in weird angles, as though frozen in a helpless flail. Full story: malaysiakini/news/259497
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 02:39:41 +0000
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