As a matter of interest, when travelling to our rendezvous point for the last mission (libertad) i chose to travel up through the center of Panay to visually assess the impact of Yolanda (I have a 650 cc Motorbike which makes traversing these areas easy)
Travelling from South to North, (i used the Mountain road, Sta Barbera, Cabatuan, Janiuay, Lambuano, Bingawan, Dumalag) it was easy to see the start of the damage and the end. I was staggered by the number of trees and power lines that were down. Amazingly, at least from what I could see from the road, something like one out of every 20 houses sustained damage and one out of 100 houses were destroyed, and honestly, these probably would have fallen down if you pushed them anyway. I noticed that the windward side of the hill faces were flat, nothing standing and that the valleys that were open to the windward side had a lot of vegetation damage because they acted like a funnel. Probably there were homes up in there I could not see Northern Panay will be without power for a long time, it is staggering just how many power poles were down. Having said all that, life appeared form the main road to be relatively normal, kids going to school, sari-sari stores open, etc, buses running, no road closures that I found. I saw one Red Cross aid truck handing out what looked like 10Kg bags of rice to people. Of course, they managed to block the traffic when doing this, was the only traffic jam I experienced. The areas we are targeting next are remote and can not be seen from the main roads. These are the areas that should be focused on, the hills, valleys and exposed areas with little access. Before Imagery would be useful in identifying where settlements were, they may be hard to identify with the vegetation down on the post imagery. Looking closely in the valleys and windward side of hills may show places that need assistance. Regards Mark Cupitt "If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence" See me on LinkedIn <http://ph.linkedin.com/in/markcupitt> *See me on StackExchange <http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/17846/mark-c>* =============================================================================================== The contents of this email are intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose, copy, distribute, or use the contents of this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the email and any attachments. ===============================================================================================
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