PHILIPPINES FACE AFTERMATH OF SUPER TYPHOON HAIYAN
WORLD a NATION
BY BOBBY PACHECO
Staff WmTCK
"Amazing news coming out of the
IDF field hospital," Israeli Defense Force
spokesperson Peter Lemer said via Twitter.
"First baby delivered. The thankful mom
named him 'Israel.'"
IDF physicians delivered baby Israel five
days after Typhoon Haiyan decimated his
birthplace: Tacloban, Phillipines. What was a
city of approximately 200,000 people is now
wreckage-strewn marshland.
Baby Israel's success story is one of many,
as organizations like the IDF continue to
erect field hospitals in the aftermath of the
devastation.
Israel is one of numerous countries,
including the U.S., who are scrambling to
reach Haiyan's victims.
Typhoon Haiyan made landfall on Nov.
8 as a category 5 storm. Measuring over
300 miles in diameter with sustained winds
over 200 mph, Haiyan is possibly the largest
storm ever measured.
The death toll is currently estimated to be
slightly over 4,000, a number that is expected
to rise due to food and clean water shortage.
Looting and violence abound in the chaos
left in the wake of the storm.
"The immediate effect of a storm like
this is the loss of first responders," said
Gregory Gampfer, a Hurricane Katrina
survivor, in an email interview with The
Guilfordian. "Whenever destruction affects
the infrastructure as well as first responders,
the situation is at its worst.
"Haiyan mirrors Katrina in so many
ways, most viscerally to me being the storm
surge," Gampfer said.
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