Lost

The news reports are still coming in.  ABC reported that there are estimates of 10,000 dead in one city alone.  Other reports mentions 10,000 total.  Either way that is a HUGE number.  I can't fathom that amount of loss.

Image from foxnews.com

To put it into some type of perspective, the town that we live in is around 43,000 people.  What would it mean to have 1 out 4 people die from our town alone?  It would mean that one person from our family was dead... and the same from all of our friends in town.  One report says that the storm has destroyed 70-80% of structures in its path.  What does that mean for those left behind?

It is so hard to read about the devastation. I cannot get through an article without tears streaming down my face.

Here are a couple of articles that I read.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/10/us-philippines-typhoon-idUSBRE9A603Q20131110

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/11/10/strongest-typhoon-year-hits-philippines/