A year ago today, Supertyphoon “Yolanda” made
landfall at 4:40 a.m. in Guiuan, Eastern Samar.
Yolanda left a near-apocalyptic landscape: about 600
towns and 57 cities in 44 provinces flattened or damaged, more than 28,000
people injured and some 3 million affected in one way or another. The
government stopped counting the dead—the corpses littered the coasts and
countryside for weeks and sometimes months after the typhoon—at 6,293 last
April, despite some 1,800 more persons reported missing. No one is sure of the
exact number at this point.
