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One of the most powerful storms ever recorded hit the Philippines, killing some 10,000 people.\u00a0 Go here<\/a> to help.<\/p>\n

After the jump, details about the storm, the difference between hurricanes and typhoons, and some Lutheran connections.<\/p>\n

From My Way News \u2013 Philippine typhoon deaths climb into thousands<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As many as 10,000 people are believed dead in one Philippine city alone after one of the worst storms ever recorded unleashed ferocious winds and giant waves that washed away homes and schools. Corpses hung from tree branches and were scattered along sidewalks and among flattened buildings, while looters raided grocery stores and gas stations in search of food, fuel and water.<\/p>\n

Officials projected the death toll could climb even higher when emergency crews reach areas cut off by flooding and landslides. Even in the disaster-prone Philippines, which regularly contends with earthquakes, volcanoes and tropical cyclones, Typhoon Haiyan appears to be the deadliest natural disaster on record.<\/p>\n

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Haiyan hit the eastern seaboard of the Philippine archipelago on Friday and quickly barreled across its central islands before exiting into the South China Sea, packing winds of 235 kilometers per hour (147 miles per hour) that gusted to 275 kph (170 mph), and a storm surge that caused sea waters to rise 6 meters (20 feet).<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until Sunday that the scale of the devastation became clear, with local officials on hardest-hit Leyte Island saying that there may be 10,000 dead in the provincial capital of Tacloban alone. Reports also trickled in from elsewhere on the island, and from neighboring islands, indicating hundreds, if not thousands more deaths, though it will be days before the full extent of the storm\u2019s impact can be assessed.<\/p>\n

HURRICANE? CYCLONE? TYPHOON?<\/a> (Associated Press):<\/p>\n

They\u2019re all the same, officially tropical cyclones. But they just use distinctive terms for a storm in different parts of the world. Hurricane is used in the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, central and northeast Pacific. They are typhoons in the northwest Pacific. In the Bay of Bengal and the Arabia Sea, they are called cyclones. Tropical cyclone is used in the southwest India Ocean; in the southwestern Pacific and southeastern India Ocean they are severe tropical cyclones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Help for disasters has become a strong point for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.\u00a0 Go here for details and to send help:LCMS Disaster Relief.<\/a><\/p>\n

We should help, of course, regardless of the religion of the people afflicted, but the Philippines are the largest predominantly Christian nation in the region of Asia.\u00a0 The above site says that three Lutheran churches were in the hardest-hit areas, with at least one completely destroyed.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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