Well, how about that? Typhoon Milenyo (international callsign 'Xangsane' - apparantly they resent Chinese names here... if a typhoon crosses into Philippine soil it had better damn well have a Filipino name) is being dubbed the worst storm to hit the country in 20 years. Skimming the news, the death toll isn't as bad as has been seen in the past: 10 fatalities directly attributed to the storm, and an incident at a Samsung manufacturing plant not too far from us left 50 hospitalized when three buildings collapsed. There hasn't been any cell phone coverage since the morning, which sucks ass since I can't even call my girl to find out if she's alright. Power is still out. Luzon has been hit by a massive blackout. Except for a few places, everything is pitch dark. Amazingly, one of the very few open businesses open at the Paseo (where they have emergency generators apparantly) is a cybercafe. Right now i'm in a room packed with Koreans playing Starcraft to pass the time, lol. I can't say I blame them. I was bored out of my fucking mind before I decided to take a walk and blog for you people.
I have video footage of the storm. This clip was taken at SunPower during the morning, when Milenyo was just getting warmed up. Absolutely shocking footage!
Ok, I was dramatizing a little. :) Enjoy the blog. I think I'll go to sleep early. Like hell I'm not going to read a book by candlelight, even though Dostojevski's Crime and Punishment is interesting (though not captivating) reading so far.
Flipside!
2 comments:
pretty frightening, that video clip from Thursday morning. Even more so the clip from chrisallandrferrero (who is he by the way?) shot from a car moving through the storm. Still, though water in the streets and lots of felled trees, no collapsed houses and no dramatic rescues by copter ... so if this was the 20 years storm, I should say the Phil.s is lucky, and the bad reputation due to typhoons quite baseless.
Hi Dad,
We were comparing the Philippine typhoon storm warning signal system to the one used for American hurricanes, and there is no contest between the two. Hurricanes come out on top. For example, the wind speeds in the American system have a much bigger maximum loft, at 250 km/h for a category 5 storm. The highest storm rating in the Philippines is 4 and these have wind speeds of 185 km/h and over.
When Katrina hit New Orleans, it was only a cat-4 in the US system, but that still made it more powerful than the worst class of typhoon.
Dad, for your information the website I use to upload videos is one used by millions of other internet users. chrisallandferrero is just some random dude.
Interestingly though, the place that you are seeing in his clip is the place where the Alfelor family live, the Ayala Alabang subdivision. Yup, they got hit too.
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