Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Surviving in Concepcion

by Grace Siason

CONCEPCION, Iloilo – It is more than a week since super typhoon “Yolanda” devastated this northern Iloilo town where it made its fifth landfall but for the residents, it seemed the monster howler has never really left.


The roof of Concepcion’s fishing port made of galvanized iron flaked off like a scab after strong winds passed through it just like it did in many other parts of northern Iloilo.


Storm surges were so high they covered the nearby hill and wrecked the whole shoreline as witnessed by the residents of Sitio Ponting in the island-barangay of Tambaliza around 11:30 a.m. of November 8 even as they fled their homes and found refuge among the hills. Read the rest of the story here.





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