[FunkPumpkin]

Originally Posted by King Herald ↗

1000's of people still homeless, three years later, millions of dollars of donated charity money still unaccounted for, hundreds of tons of emergency food stuffs disappeared, or been found for sale in Manila, or stashed away in the houses of local politicians....

The most fierce typhoon ever to make landfall, and the greedy bastards still had to rip off the people affected!

Well, with asshole leaders like Duterte, what do you expect?

Everyone makes fun of Trump, but in the Philippines, you've already elected a president that is just as bad or possibly worse.

[Orangeglasses]

Originally Posted by donkey1234 ↗

Not the same as a Tsunami as a Tsunami is a single wave that comes in then withdraws.

The way the typhoon hit Tacloban was that the eye of the storm was south of Tacloban, the storm was spinning ant clockwise. The wind from the storm was continuously driving the water from the sea into Tacloban while the storm was in that position.

South of Tacloban, there was no flooding as the wind was driving everything out to sea.

If the storm had passed by Tacloban to the North, we would not have had 7000 deaths.

I can't remember now but I believe the water went through Tacloban City at 3 metres high (about 10 feet)

He didn't say it was the same....it actually did look somewhat like a tsunami but it was obviously a storm surge with the hurricane winds.

[AudieMurphy]

Originally Posted by Steve 1 ↗

A tsunami is a series of waves not just one, drop something into a bowl of water and you can see multiple ripples. It's the same principle with a tsunami.

Don't quote me on this, but I think the difference is that a surge is caused by continuous, high speed wind from a storm, whereas a tsunami, or series of, is caused by a single drastic event. For example, earthquakes, hot spot volcanoes (I think those are the only ones located at sea), landslides, avalanches, explosives, and so on.

[RUTHIE7]

Originally Posted by King Herald ↗

1000's of people still homeless, three years later, millions of dollars of donated charity money still unaccounted for, hundreds of tons of emergency food stuffs disappeared, or been found for sale in Manila, or stashed away in the houses of local politicians....

The most fierce typhoon ever to make landfall, and the greedy bastards still had to rip off the people affected!

You sound like you know about outright corruption. I grew up in Zimbabwe and the corruption is blatantly out in the open and the west STILL plow money into their greedy pockets. Thank God I'm not there anymore.

Its absolutely disgusting.