Health : The Atlantic: The Chaos After the Super Typhoon

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The Chaos After the Super Typhoon Nov 10th 2013, 18:54, by James Hamblin Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines on November 10 (Aaron Favila/AP) Super Typhoon Haiyan tore across the central Philippine islands on Friday, in what The New York Times described as "play[ing] a deadly form of hopscotch." That metaphor feels lighthearted in the context that the governor of the Tacloban estimates 10,000 deaths in his city alone. "We had a meeting last night with the governor and the other officials," police chief superintendent Elmer Soria told Reuters. The governor said, based on their estimate, 10,000 died. The devastation is so big."  International aid is mobilizing quickly, but peril for survivors is rife. Support and rescue are difficult not only because of lack of access to the areas hardest hit, but also because of mob rule. Philippine Red Cross chairman Richard Gordon described "mobsters" attacking trucks attempting to deliver food and tents on Tanauan bridge in Leyte. President Benigno Aquino is deploying soldiers and armored vehicles to impose martial law and stop looting. Residents push open a grocery in Tacloban on November 10. (Aaron Favila/AP) U.S. defense secretary Chuck Hagel has deployed ships and aircraft to deliver emergency supplies and help with search-and-rescue, and U.S. Embassy in Manila has mobilized $100,000 for health and sanitation efforts. The scale of destruction is massive, likened to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami by the head of the United Nations disaster assessment team, Sebastian Rhodes Stampa. Expect images and quantification to put it into perspective over the coming days. Winds reached 195 miles per hour and storm surges were 13 feet in places on Friday. The National Disaster and Risk Reduction Management Council has put the as-yet verifiable death toll at 151. Others say hundreds are already confirmed. Gordon estimated that there were thousands of bodies, but counting them is difficult because they are widely dispersed. The airport in Tacloban city, where rescue planes might have landed. (Bullit Marquez/AP) Tacloban city, Leyte province (Toti Navales/AP) Residents taking shelter in ruins in Tacloban city (Bullit Marquez/AP) November 10, Tacloban city (Bullit Marquez/AP) Survivors walk by a large ship after it was washed ashore by strong waves (Aaron Favila/AP)

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