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27-W - Typhoon Washi (reply)

dulan drift — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:11:46 +0000

Yeah, you're right, that suddeness in the middle of the night - also the south doesn't actually get hit by that many typhoons apparently so it sounds like it caught them totally unprepared. And yeah about the media coverage too.

27-W - Typhoon Washi (reply)

dan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:32:39 +0000

This sounds like an absolute disaster. The death toll now stands at well over 1,000, and it hardly makes any international news. After all, it's the Philippines. Who gives a shit! If it had happened in Florida we'd be hearing about it for six months. I'm not clear on why the death toll was so high. They probably have more experience with these storms than anybody in the world. It sounds like a lot of the flooding happened very quickly and at night. Regardless, it was a bad one.

27-W - Typhoon Washi

dulan drift — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:15:59 +0000

Typhoon Washi (reaching cat 1) which looked pretty similar to the procession of lows that have been crossing the ppe over the last couple of months, has turned out to be the most disastrous one of the season killing over 600 people in south ppe - mostly in Mindanao.
Unlike the other lows, it hasn't caused much rain in Taiwan - probably a bit too far south to affect us.