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    The document discusses the devastating effects of Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines in 2013. It was an extremely powerful storm, described as the strongest to ever hit the Philippines and one of the strongest in the world. Eastern Visayas was hit hardest, especially Tacloban City which was directly in the path of towering storm surges from two bodies of water. While natural disasters do not discriminate, this one threatened Philippine families and society economically and emotionally. In the aftermath, it brought out both the best and worst in people - the local and international support efforts but also looting and political bickering when relief should have been prioritized. Survivors remained traumatized by their painful losses.

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    The document discusses the devastating effects of Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines in 2013. It was an extremely powerful storm, described as the strongest to ever hit the Philippines and one of the strongest in the world. Eastern Visayas was hit hardest, especially Tacloban City which was directly in the path of towering storm surges from two bodies of water. While natural disasters do not discriminate, this one threatened Philippine families and society economically and emotionally. In the aftermath, it brought out both the best and worst in people - the local and international support efforts but also looting and political bickering when relief should have been prioritized. Survivors remained traumatized by their painful losses.

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    The document discusses the devastating effects of Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines in 2013. It was an extremely powerful storm, described as the strongest to ever hit the Philippines and one of the strongest in the world. Eastern Visayas was hit hardest, especially Tacloban City which was directly in the path of towering storm surges from two bodies of water. While natural disasters do not discriminate, this one threatened Philippine families and society economically and emotionally. In the aftermath, it brought out both the best and worst in people - the local and international support efforts but also looting and political bickering when relief should have been prioritized. Survivors remained traumatized by their painful losses.

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    The document discusses the devastating effects of Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines in 2013. It was an extremely powerful storm, described as the strongest to ever hit the Philippines and one of the strongest in the world. Eastern Visayas was hit hardest, especially Tacloban City which was directly in the path of towering storm surges from two bodies of water. While natural disasters do not discriminate, this one threatened Philippine families and society economically and emotionally. In the aftermath, it brought out both the best and worst in people - the local and international support efforts but also looting and political bickering when relief should have been prioritized. Survivors remained traumatized by their painful losses.

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    Despite not experiencing the super typhoon Yolanda, many people within and outside

    of the country have strived to help the devastated people that were greatly affected by the
    storm. Reading the newspaper made me quite emotional and grateful on how various
    countries have responded in order to help one of the smallest countries in the world. The
    most targeted unit in society during this disaster is the numerous families who have
    suffered losses of lives and homes. This typhoon not only threatens our society
    economically, due to the loss of property worth millions of pesos, but also the loss of
    families. Families constitute a great deal in any society, and anything that targets the family
    also targets the country as a whole. In this sense, the t yphoon Yol and a i s t hreat eni ng i n
    t he s ens e t hat i t posed a t hre at t o t he fa m i l i es i n t he Philippines.
    No one could have predicted the kind of devastation that Yolanda would bring, with the
    super typhoon now having gained infamy as the strongest ever to hit not only the
    Philippines but the world – whose power was described by meteorologists as “off the
    charts,” and that its intensity could not be tracked or handled by widely used satellite
    intensity scales because it has approached the “theoretical maximum intensity for any
    storm, anywhere.”

    As some experts have noted, no amount of preparation could have spared Eastern
    Visayas from the intensity of the super typhoon. This was particularly true with Tacloban
    City that was the hardest hit because its location put it in the middle of two bodies of
    water that hit it with towering waves as high as five meters brought about by the storm
    surge – the first one coming from the direction of the Pacific Ocean through Tacloban
    Bay, then the second one from Cancabato Bay.

    Storms, typhoons, earthquakes and other natural calamities do not choose – they can
    hit any country regardless of economic stature, they do not distinguish “names” nor
    political affiliation, neither religion nor social status. Devastating as they are, tragedies
    such as that wrought by super typhoon Yolanda can also bring out the best in people,
    seen in the way Filipinos banded together as they gave donations, volunteered time and
    effort to repack relief items and offered prayers for casualties as well as survivors. The
    response from the international community was – for lack of a better word –
    overwhelming, with help still pouring in until this very day to speed up the rehabilitation
    of the areas that were damaged.

    But just as tragedy can bring out the best in people, it can also show the worst – the
    looting and stealing, with opportunists selling the imported food and other relief items
    intended for survivors. Worst of all, Filipinos witnessed the political bickering and blame
    shifting when the time could have been better spent doing rescue and humanitarian
    relief efforts.
    No doubt Yolanda’s lessons are bitter and painful, and it’s difficult to forget the look in the
    eyes of the survivors – pained, dazed, bewildered. The sun may be shining in Leyte today but the
    poor victims of the killer typhoon still see drops of rain — but in reality it’s the tears in their eyes.

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