Tacloban Starts to Come Back to Life
“Tindog Tacloban!” read a large poster in the center of this destroyed Leyte city in the Philippines. It roughly meant “stand up Tacloban” and was a sign that things were changing in a city devastated by Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), which was hit on Nov. 9 by sustained winds up to 230 kmp and gusts up to 315 kmph
In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, …
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