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To: koan who wrote (16886)	11/9/2013 5:34:17 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49038

Insurance rates...........gonna soar

To: koan who wrote (16886)	11/9/2013 5:35:23 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 49038

Rescue efforts underway after Philippines typhoon leaves an estimated 1,200 dead, reports say

To: koan who wrote (16886)	11/9/2013 10:29:51 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49038

Tribune wire reports 8:56 p.m. CST, November 9, 2013 Manila— One of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines province of Leyte, a senior police official said on Sunday, with coastal towns and the regional capital devastated by huge waves. Super typhoon Haiyan destroyed about 70 to 80 percent of the area in its path as it tore through the province on Friday, said chief superintendent Elmer Soria, a regional police director.

To: koan who wrote (16886)	11/10/2013 1:11:01 AM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49038

Would be total destruction coming in with that much force and storm surge. The property damage and lost of life in the high cost very dense populated areas in and around Miami would be unthinkable

To: koan who wrote (16886)

11/11/2013 12:07:05 PM

From: Wharf Rat

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"Can you imagine the damage a 190 MPH storm would do to the US? "

I'd rather not.

Category 1 Typhoon Haiyan Hitting Vietnam; Extreme Damage in the Philippines

By: Dr. Jeff Masters, 7:09 PM GMT on November 10, 2013

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Typhoon Haiyan is closing in on the northern Vietnam coast near the Chinese border as a much-weakened Category 1 storm with 85 mph winds, after devastating the Philippines on Thursday and Friday as an extreme Category 5 storm with top winds of 195 mph. Satellite loops show that Haiyan no longer has a well-defined eye, but the typhoon still has a large area of intense thunderstorms which are bringing heavy rains of up to 1.5 inches per hour to Vietnam and Southeastern China. Haiyan will weaken and dissipate by Monday as it pushes inland over southern China, but the 8+ inches of rain that the storm will dump on Vietnam and Southeastern China will cause major flooding problems.

Haiyan is the third significant storm to hit Vietnam in the past six weeks. According to reliefweb.int, in the first two weeks of October, Central Vietnam was hit by two Category 1 storms, Typhoons Wutip and Nari, leaving behind significant damages in nine provinces. The total economic loss due to Nari was $71 million. Typhoon Wutip's damages were estimated at $663 million. According to EM-DAT, this makes Wutip the second most expensive natural disaster in Vietnamese history, behind the $785 million in damages caused by 2009's Typhoon Ketsana.

Extreme damage in the Philippines
With a preliminary death toll of 1,200, Haiyan already ranks as the 8th deadliest typhoon in Philippines history. The deadliest typhoon in Philippines history was Typhoon Thelma of 1991, which killed between 5101 - 8000 people, reports wunderground's weather historian Christopher C. Burt in his latest post on Philippines typhoon history

wunderground.com