Super Typhoon Haiyan smashes into the Philippines

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The most intense typhoon on record has killed four people and forced almost 720,000 people to flee their homes, leaving behind a trail of destruction and devastation.

Super typhoon Haiyan smashed into coastal communities on the central island of Samar, 370 miles southeast of Manila, this morning with maximum sustained winds of 195mph and gusts of up to 235mph.
According to The U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center, which measures average wind speed accurate to every minute, that made Haiyan more powerful than the 1969 Hurricane Camille, which battered Mississippi in the United States with winds of 190mph.

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This NASA satellite image shows what is the strongest storm ever closing in on the Philippines

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Debris which was washed in by the storm litters the road by the coastal village in Legazpi

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A resident runs past an uprooted tree amidst strong winds as the super-typhoon battered Cebu City, in the central Philippines this morning

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Residents of Legaspi, Albay province, south of Manila resident, were forced to flee the coast as Haiyan continued to pound the sea wall today
 
The death toll is expected to reach around 10,000 and if it reaches that number it will be Philippines greatest natural disaster in terms of death.
 
Aye is now 10000 dead and rising - likely to be a lot more I read in the Tacloban area all power comms roads hospitals food supply systems clean water gone Ie a total refugee situation
 
New pics from the Philippines

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Ground winds of up to 235mph were recored

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People at the coast say the first thought a tsunami hit them

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Huge ships ran aground like in the Japan tsunami

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Residents scour a huge debris field

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In Tacloban hundreds looted a store for food and other items
 
I am wondering how many many people in the Philippines knew to open windows to equalize the pressure of the building to stop the budilding from exploding or imploding. During these types of storms, this is how quite a few die, whether it be typhoons, hurricanes or cyclones. The theres the trapped in the building and drowning as the water level rises, then hit on the head by flying debris, not very nice ways to die.
 
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