The Hagupit is the most powerful typhoon to hit the Philippines archipelago this year. Heavy rains, winds gusting to 200 km / h on its way, the damage is immense, power lines and torn roofs, flooding. Venue of the Pacific Ocean, the storm first swept the country, including the island of Samar.
Areas already devastated last year by the super typhoon Haiyan are involved, including the great port city of Tacloban. As a precaution, this time hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated.
"That's the problem, where is that going to go after that?" Asked the woman, "without this tent, it was nowhere to stay."
The impact of the typhoon is expected to occur on a strip of more than 600 kilometers wide, nearly 50 million people are affected, half of the Philippine population. Last year, Haiyan had done more 7000 dead and four million victims.
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