The Boston Globe's The Big Picture feature has a set of photographs from Typhoon Haiyan showing the extent of devastation.
They also got the wind speed numbers correct.
From The Big Picture:
A Filipino resident stands on a roof of a home with a backdrop of a cloudy financial district in Manila, Philippines, Nov. 8.
The most powerful cyclone in three decades battered the Philippines, killing at least three people and displacing over 718,000, disaster relief officials said.
Typhoon Haiyan was packing maximum sustained winds of 235 kilometres per hour (kph) and gusts of up to 275 kph as it made five landfalls
over the eastern and central provinces of Eastern Samar, Leyte, Cebu and Iloilo, the national weather bureau said. (Francis R. Malasig/EPA)
Typhoon Haiyan
A massive typhoon, reported as one of the strongest storms on record this year, came ashore in the central Philippines today. The storm packed sustained winds of 147 miles per hour and forced more than 700,000 people from their homes, killing at least four. -- Lloyd Young ( 19 photos )
A Filipino resident stands on a roof of a home with a backdrop of a cloudy financial district in Manila, Philippines, Nov. 8.
The most powerful cyclone in three decades battered the Philippines, killing at least three people and displacing over 718,000, disaster relief officials said.
Typhoon Haiyan was packing maximum sustained winds of 235 kilometres per hour (kph) and gusts of up to 275 kph as it made five landfalls
over the eastern and central provinces of Eastern Samar, Leyte, Cebu and Iloilo, the national weather bureau said. (Francis R. Malasig/EPA)
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