Typhoon Update: Philippines Reeling

I was afraid this would happen.

Destruction in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan  

In the immediate hours after Typhoon Haiyan smashed through the Philippines, initial reports indicated the death toll wasn't that bad.

But as people are finally able to get in and survey damage from one of the strongest typhoons in world history, the news has gotten really, really bad.

Estimates are up to 10,000 people died in the storm, and images coming from the disaster zone show unclaimed bodies lying in the street.

The same thing kind of happened with Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The initial reports were New Orleans had largely been spared, but of course within hours we knew it was a cataclysm.

The same has pretty much happened with Typhoon Haiyan.

To give you an idea of how bad things got, here's a video tour, below,  of the hardest hit larger city in Philippines, Tacloban City, which is pretty much flattened.

Notice the city looks like it's been hit  by a strong tornado, kind of like looking like Joplin, Missouri after their mega-tornado in 2011, with gutted buildings and shattered, leafless trees.

Taclonan City also looks like it was hit, along with the "tornado," the huge Japanese tsunami of 2011.

Here's the sad video: