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Typhoon Haiyan Continues To Scourge Southeast Asia
jones_supa writes "ABC Australia is reporting extensively about the progress of the Typhoon Haiyan, which has reached the status of being one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded. Over the weekend it has caused severe destruction and misery passing through Philippines with maximum sustained winds of 315 km/h, where the authorities are now struggling to bring relief to areas worst affected, there being 10,000 people dead. The storm is now heading towards Vietnam, where already over 600,000 people have been evacuated. Meanwhile, China announced its highest alert for Typhoon Haiyan as six crew members of a cargo boat were reported missing. Vietnam is likely to be spared the storm's initial ferocity as it has weakened over the South China Sea and is now expected to hit as a category 1 storm, with wind speeds of about 74 km/h, meteorologists say."
I, for one, would have picked another adjective.
Sent from my ENIAC
A category 1 storm has sustained winds of 74 mph, or 119 kph, not 74 kpm as stated in the summary.
Citation provided: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffir%E2%80%93Simpson_hurricane_wind_scale
In B4 libtards would have us all go back to horse and buggy and spew a bunch of unverifiable nonsense.
How well does wifi work through concrete walls? I only ask because the next house I build will be an ICF (concrete) house. If we're going to have a storm-of-the-century every few years then might as well be prepared.
Certainly a horrible thing and my thoughts go out to those that lost loved ones.
Figured I should post the Red Cross donation link in case anyone is interested:
https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod4650031
in the context of these Cat 5 hurricanes and typhoons that are striking all over in increasing frequency. Even though scientists caution against jumping to conclusion about any given storm, in the aggregate it looks pretty conclusive that the climate is changing, perhaps with more moisture in the air from polar icecap meltdown.
Yes, in each case you can point out 'canes in the distant past that caused comparable damage to the affected region, but these are occurring with regularity. As are the droughts and heat waves in the summer in different regions.
Oh right, larger numbers are more sensational.
I fear the gold iPhone that I have on order, its construction might be delayed because of this. Worst time for this to hit.
I thought Slashdot is a place for geeks, nerds, techies.
Has Slashdot opened a new department for storm-chasers ??
I really hope, but it won't happen, that the USA turns OFF its piggy bank to the UN, or others that come begging for money, which will of course be wasted and stolen. It's time the rest of the world take care of their own, instead of turning to the USA every time a natural disaster hits. Every time a hurricane hits here, no one offers to lend a hand. Hopefully, soon, we'll pull ALL of our troops out of every foreign country and quit meddling in the affairs of other nations. Let them fend for themselves for a while. The USA is broke as it is.
Meteorology is a science too, and science is very much a geek/nerd interest.
and you can also help by mapping the region with the openstreetmap humanitarian team :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan_(2013)
this should help rescue teams and relief workers
Rich
covering it at all. I have two Filipino coworkers that didn't even know there was a typhoon until one got a call at work from a family member saying they were safe. As usual, the media only covers things they're paid to cover. The top story today in the Seattle Times was about drug makers. Yesterday it was about Boeing.
China will send aid to its many citizens on its islands in the South China Sea, that will suffer from Typhoon Haiyan.
I'm sorry, but this storm is not affecting The Gulf of Mexico, Florida, or the Jersey Shore. America is not interested. Move along.
Thanks for flagellating me into shape.
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in b4 some1 says "woosh"
Sorry, but "whoosh" is spelled with two "h"s.
Hard disk prices might go up again!
Must be a pretty terrible thing for those people living in the area. Good luck to the folks re-building their lives.
Well, evidently this isn't big news, or it's the wrong kind of news or something.
10,000 people dead in a natural disaster - 68 comments as of now.
Hurricane Sandy 150-300 dead. When Slashdot did a "Sandy was 1 year ago" story, it got 230 comments.
I'm wondering what kind of shelter would protect people during the next typhoon. Maybe something like the underground tornado shelters that we have in the US? Besides protecting people from wind and flying debris, the shelter could store food and water. That's a big problem right now - people have gone a few days without food or fresh water.
A big problem is where to put the shelter.
1) If the shelter is near the ocean, a storm surge would drown the people in the shelter.
2) If the shelter is on a hill or mountain, a landslide could cover the shelter, or the shelter could get caught up in a landslide.
Considering the geography of the Philippines, it's hard to find a place not near an ocean or on a mountain.
and even if it doesn't.... prices are gonna go up anyway, 'just because'...... you watch.
Robonaut's legs are designed for walking around the space station in microgravity, so they would be useless in gravity
BUT, the same people working on robonaut are building a female humanoid robot for the DARPA robotics challenge, which could very well walk on the moon
315 Km/h? That's a considerably faster speed than I've seen quoted elsewhere. Could we have a cite for it, please?
They just keep coming, dammit! Nothing stops them! Not napalm, not buffs, not even typhoons! We can brag on body count but we are running out of numbers to count to!
To ask ourselves, if 2 or more simultaneous disasters struck the US could FEMA/Anyone respond to both? Does the Government have enough resources to respond to both? To even one?
How long will it take to rebuild if say Los Angeles is hit with an 8.0 at the same time another Katrina happens?
Just how far are we from walking the streets like zombies looking for food?
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Someone marked this comment flamebait, so they missed the obvious cynicism in this comment. Or if this was actually meant for real, then it goes to show the exact sad thing, that for a lot of people this is actually true.
As someone else in this thread already said, the coverage on this particular Typhoon in the US Media is severely lacking for the most part, which really is sad.
Coz eternity my friend, is a long *ing time.
Bush's fault.
Someone marked this comment flamebait, so they missed the obvious cynicism in this comment
Correct.
Or if this was actually meant for real
It was not.