Dead state map of survivors12/22/2023 “No wind or water, no matter how strong, can wash our faith away,” Maraya said, attributing the resilience of the survivors to their deep religious beliefs.Ī few people holding umbrellas for the occasional shower of rain visited a cemetery in Tacloban where hundreds of people killed by the storm are buried. Tano planned to light candles in his street and “pray for the souls of the Typhoon Yolanda victims”, he said, using the Philippines’ name for the storm.ĭespite the huge loss of life and property, Vicar General Erlito Maraya, who led yesterday’s mass, told the audience at the convention centre “there is life after Yolanda”. I rode a sofa or cabinet that was floating and was able to reach the ceiling.” “I was able to rescue maybe six children. “We did not expect the water to enter the building,” Tano said yesterday as he recalled the traumatic events. Steel bars on the windows trapped him and others inside. Marlon Tano, 56, thought he was going to die during Haiyan when surprising storm surges swamped the building where he had sought shelter. Some residents placed lit candles in the streets in the evening in remembrance of the people lost in the disaster. More than four million people were left homeless. Stormy clouds hung over the city of around 280,000 people yesterday, adding to the sombre atmosphere of the anniversary.Ībout 6,300 people were killed by Haiyan, and a decade later more than a thousand are still missing. “We must make climate change a vital component of our national policies.” “Be assured that the government is always striving to ensure that such tragedies of this magnitude will be avoided and will be adapted to,” he said. Sombre: Marcos (fourth from left) attending a mass to commemorate the 10th year anniversary of Super Typhoon Haiyan inside a stadium in Tacloban City, Leyte province. He said the Philippines – typically affected by more than 20 major storms a year – needed to build “stronger and more resilient communities” in the face of climate change, which scientists have long warned is making storms more powerful. “Ten years have gone by, and yet the memory of this tragedy remains indelible in our hearts and in our thoughts,” Marcos told the audience. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos attended the ceremony along with members of his Cabinet, foreign diplomats and survivors of the storm. People returned a decade later to Tacloban’s seaside convention centre – which was used as an evacuation site during Haiyan –for a Catholic mass to remember the victims and pay tribute to those who helped rebuild the city. Tacloban, the capital of Leyte province, bore the brunt of the storm’s fury and was almost totally destroyed by 5m-high storm surges that crashed over mostly poor coastal communities. Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, unleashed winds of up to 315kph and whipped up tsunami-like waves that devastated central islands in the archipelago nation. THE survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan prayed for their dead loved ones in the devoutly Catholic Philippines as they commemorated the 10th anniversary of a storm that killed more than 6,000 people.
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