3 months have now passed since Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) devastated parts of the Philippines. For work I had to make my second trip down to the worst hit area to help with environmental impact assessments for future recovery activities. We spent most of the time visiting classrooms that had been destroyed and need to be fully reconstructed. I'd been here 2 months ago and it was interesting to see how much had changed (more people especially development workers, more traffic, availability of goods, life returning to normal) and at the same time how little had changed (same car that was standing on its hood is still there, debris everywhere, IDP camps still prevalent).
This was a school building built by the US.
MacArthur's returned to the Philippines.
Records being dried at government offices
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