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Typhoon Hagupit tears down newly-built homes in disaster-weary Philippines

						By: Agence France-Presse | Lottie Salarda, InterAksyon.com
						December 7, 2014 11:02 AM					
 






			Fishermen carry their outrigger to higher ground in Legazpi City, south of Manila on 5 December 2014, ahead of the landfall of Typhoon Hagupit. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
		
 



 







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CATBALOGAN CITY – (UPDATE, 11:30 a.m.) Typhoon Hagupit tore apart homes and sent waves crashing through coastal communities across the eastern Philippines on Sunday, creating more misery for millions following a barrage of deadly disasters.
In Tacloban City, Hagupit destroyed thousands of houses rebuilt after super typhoon Yolanda last year along coastal areas were destroyed by typhoon Ruby as it made landfall last night in Eastern Samar.  As of this posting (11:30 a.m.), Tacloban residents still felt the strong winds brought by Hagupit.
The main streets of the oldest subdivision in the city were also flooded due to heavy rainfall.  Anthony Aborque and his family evacuated the downtown area before the storm hit the city. They lived at old road Sagkahan. He was very dismayed when he saw his newly constructed house again wiped out by the typhoon.  People who stayed in their houses now begged for food.  Many families stayed in the evacuation centers as heavy rains and strong winds were still felt outside.
Hagupit roared in from the Pacific Ocean and crashed into remote fishing communities of Samar island on Saturday night with wind gusts of 210 kilometers (130 miles) an hour, local weather agency Pagasa said.
The wind strength made Hagupit the most powerful storm to hit the Philippines this year, exceeding a typhoon in July that killed more than 100 people.
"Tin roofs are flying off, trees are falling and there is some flooding," Stephany Uy-Tan, the mayor of Catbalogan, a major city on Samar, told AFP by phone minutes after Hagupit made landfall.
Fearful of a repeat of last year when super typhoon Haiyan claimed more than 7,350 lives, the government undertook a massive evacuation effort ahead of Hagupit that saw millions of people seek shelter.
Hagupit was forecast to take three days to cut across the Philippines, passing over mostly poor central regions, while also bringing heavy rain to the densely populated capital of Manila slightly to the north.
The government warned of storm surges up to five meters (16-feet) high in some areas, flash flooding, landslides, and winds strong enough to tear apart even sturdy homes.
Tens of millions of people live in the typhoon's path, including those in the central Philippines who are still struggling to recover from the devastation of Haiyan, which hit 13 months ago.
Haiyan was the strongest storm ever recorded on land, with winds of 315 kilometers an hour, and generated tsunami-like storm surges that laid to waste entire towns.
As day broke on Sunday, many areas across the eastern Philippines could not be contacted and it was impossible to know how badly they were damaged, Red Cross secretary general Gwendolyn Pang told AFP.
In those that were reachable, residents and officials reported terrifying winds and waves that destroyed homes, although with most people in evacuation centers there were hopes casualties would be few.
In Tacloban, one of the cities worst-hit by Haiyan, palm-thatch temporary houses built by aid agencies for survivors of last year's typhoon had been torn aport, vice mayor Jerry Yaokasin told AFP.
'Better prepared'
However there was no repeat of the storm surges that did the most damage during Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda.
"There is a collective sigh of relief. The initial assessment is that there are no casualties. We were better prepared after Yolanda, up to 50,000 people were packed in evacuation centers," he said.
"But the transitional shelters made of nipa (palm thatch) were blown away. Our biggest challenge is how to provide for those who were displaced because of that."
In the eastern region of Bicol that is due to be hit throughout Sunday and Monday, authorities said they were aiming for 2.5 million people -- half the local population -- to be in evacuation centers.
At dawn on Sunday, huge waves pounded the coast of Legazpi, a major city in Bicol that was due to feel Hagupit's full force later in the day.
Walls of seawater more than one-meter high crashed above the city's seawall and sprayed water and debris onto the deserted Legaspi Boulevard, according to an AFP reporter.
The Philippines endures about 20 major storms a year which, along with regular earthquakes and volcano eruptions, make it one of the world's most disaster-plagued countries.
The storms regularly claim many lives but they are becoming more violent and unpredictable because of climate change, according to the United Nations and many scientists.
Haiyan was the world's deadliest natural disaster last year.
In 2011 and 2012, there were consecutive December storms that together claimed more than 3,000 lives and were the world's deadliest disasters of those years.
And in July this year, typhoon Rammasun killed 111 people when it cut across Manila, paralyzing the capital for days, and other parts of the main island of Luzon.
 









 


 







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