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Once-Thriving City Is Reduced to Ruin in Philippines

2013-11-11 15:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The largest storm surge in modern history in the Philippines sent walls of water over half a mile inland along a crowded coastline when Typhoon Haiyan came ashore here last Friday, erasing villages and towns and leaving thousands of people dead or missing. Shattered buildings line every road of this once-thriving city of 220,000, and many of the streets are still so clogged with debris from nearby buildings that they are barely discernible. The civilian airport terminal here has shattered walls...

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