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Title Foreign Correspondent: The Philippines - The Super Storm
Published Australia : ABC, 2013
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Summary At every level the numbers are awful to contemplate. A gargantuan, brutal storm almost 600 kilometres wide, grinding across the sea and land at up to 380 kilometres an hour. As many as 4,200 dead, a further 1,200 missing. A million homes destroyed or damaged and according to a key UN relief agency 4.33 million people displaced - over 13 million people affected.The Philippines has been regularly struck by extreme and violent weather, but nothing like this. Super Typhoon Haiyan packed wind-power never before recorded at land-fall and those in its path barely stood a chance. Among the first to feel its devastating force were the people of Tacloban City and soon harrowing, frightening images of the damage and loss were filling TV screens around the world. But so many corners of the nation's north were flattened by the storm. The Philippines is a myriad of island communities, many of them remote and without the capacity to mount a viable evacuation plan or shelter strategy.Foreign Correspondent's Eric Campbell has travelled to a clutch of these hitherto hidden places - Bantayan island and a group of small surrounding islands off the north coast of Cebu - to examine the impact of Super Typhoon Haiyan and assess how a nation and the world responds to the needs of isolated victims."This was a beautiful, beautiful place before the typhoon hit. This was a thick forest canopy, you couldn't even see sunlight through it. Now all you see is parched land." - Vince Escario, Relief Co-ordinator Bantayan Island.NGOs have finally arrived and are doing their best to dispense relief, but the locals are wondering why government agencies and support is yet to land. Some say even in this awful humanitarian emergency, politics is in play."It seems that towns where the mayor belongs to the ruling party they get all of this help. Those who are not aligned with administration well, they get a measly token of help." - Gwen Garcia, Former Governor
Event Broadcast 2013-11-26 at 20:00:00
Notes Classification: NC
Subject Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects.
Disaster relief.
Disaster victims -- Services for.
Islands -- Environmental aspects.
Sabotage.
Cyclone damage.
Philippines -- Cebu Island.
Form Streaming video
Author Campbell, Eric, host
Garcia, Gwen, contributor
Sano, Yeb, contributor