"Worse than hell" - Allie Gonzales

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/11/world/asia/typhoon-haiyan/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Typhoon Haiyan: Survivors in Philippines face grim struggle as death toll rises

Summary:
 Survivors search in devastation through the wreckage of their homes  searching for loved ones who may be buried beneath. others are on desperate need of food and water in areas littered with corpses. Three days after Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms in recorded history, roared across the central Philippines, people here are struggling to grasp the enormity of what they have lost and the challenges they face. Thousands of houses have been destroyed leaving many areas still cut off from transport, communications and power. Some officials say that as many as 10,000 people may have been killed with numbers expected to rise. "There are too many people dead," said Richard Gordon, chairman of the Philippine Red Cross. "We have bodies in the water, bodies on the bridges, bodies on the side of the road." The need for food and water has led to increasingly desperate efforts. People have broken into grocery and department stores in Tacloban. For the devastated areas of the Philippines, the bad weather may not be over. The national weather agency, Pagasa, said Monday a tropical depression was moving toward the southern part of the country. Far weaker than Haiyan, the weather system is likely to affect mainly the islands of Mindanao and Bohol, which didn't suffer direct hits by the typhoon. But it could bring wind and heavy rain to Tacloban and the surrounding area, making conditions even more hazardous. "This disaster on such a scale will probably have us working for the next year," said Sandra Bulling, international communications officer for the aid agency CARE. "Fishermen have lost their boats. Crops are devastated. This is really the basic income of many people." This storm not only left the people hurt physical but also mentally.

Analysis:
This storm is just too horrible to put into words. I can only imagine the amount of devastation being faced in the Philippines . I know crew members are doing everything in their power to bring things back to the way they were. My prayers go out to everyone struggling and in desperate need of food and water, and I hope that everyone facing this horrible tragedy will eventually have a place they can once again call home.