Super Typhoon Haiyan

This week one of the largest typhoons of this season, let alone of all time. It unleashed ridiculous amounts of rain on already shaken up areas. Some had already experienced a 7.2 magnitude earthquake. It has flooded most of the coastal cities, and it has uprooted an innumerable amount of trees. It has destroyed numerous houses, and it has cut power to millions of people. Though many areas have been devastated, the death toll is exceedingly low- 3 deaths. Many of the areas affected were on low tide which did not allow the storm surge to reach its full potential. This typhoon was the largest tropical cyclone to make landfall anywhere in the world. Haiyan is expected to exit the Philippines by the end of Friday, chug across the South China Sea, regain strength, and then slam into Vietnam as a category 4 typhoon. All of its winds were on the top end of the Saffir-Simpson Scale for a category 5 hurricane with winds upwards of 175 miles per hour.