Typhoon Haiyan: Red Cross estimates monster storm left 1,200 dead in Philippines
Update to my earlier blog about typhoon Haiyan
This an update article of one of my earlier blogs. The death toll is rising well above 1000 people. The storm is on the path to Vietnam where it could cause even more damage and deaths. 1,000 people alone died in tacloban and at least 200 more in the Samar province. The hardest hit island was Leyte Island. The Red Cross is there trying to rescue trapped people and provide them with food. The U.S should also help them out by sending some supplies there because the people are really suffering. This is bad because the Philippines already suffers from 20 typhoons a year and they don't even have time to recover from the past storms. Since the country is made up of many islands, it is hard to evacuate because the waves rise and roll into the cities. Many places are almost completely under water. Winds were up to 200 mph which places it in a category five storm which is the highest.
I think that The Philippines needs all the help it can get from all of the countries around the world. The people have no shelter, food, or water. People in the expected areas of Vietnam must evacuate before it is too late because the storm will destroy anything in its path. This storm is one of the biggest recorded storms in history.
Tacloban- The province that got hit the worst by the storm, large percentage of the people that live here are poor and since it's on the coasts of an island it got huge amounts of waters flooding the towns completely.
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