A throwback is coming? The reminiscence of one of the most disastrous typhoons that killed thousands of lives and destroyed millions of properties in the Philippines with an international name "Haiyan", known in the Philippines as Super typhoon Yolanda, was one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded; devastating portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, in early-November 2013. It is the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record, killing at least 7,300 people in that country alone. Haiyan is also the strongest storm recorded at landfall, and the strongest typhoon ever recorded in terms of one-minute sustained wind speed. As of January 2014, bodies were still being found.
A week before this super typhoon Ruby will struck the eastern visayas, the villagers from Tacloban started to flee from their coastal homes and sparked panic-buying in grocery stores and gas stations in Tacloban City, Leyte Thursday as Typhoon Ruby (Hagupit) brought back nightmares of last year's deadly onslaught from Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan).
Government forecasters said Typhoon Ruby, which was packing sustained winds of 215 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 250 kph as of 4 a.m. Friday, may hit the Eastern Samar-Northern Samar area on Saturday afternoon and barrel inland along the same route where Yolanda leveled villages and left more than 7,300 dead and missing in November last year.
As of 9 p.m., public storm warning signal number 2 remained hoisted over the provinces of Northern Samar, Eastern Samar, Samar, Biliran, Leyte and Southern Leyte, as well as in Dinagat Island and Siargao Island in Mindanao.
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