On his first trip back to Tacloban after documenting the Yolanda tragedy, storm chaser Josh Morgerman sits down with Coconuts TV to recount his experiences
More than five months after Yolanda submerged eastern Visayas, put the city of Tacloban on the map by wiping it out, claimed more than five thousand lives, and displaced even more, American storm chaser Josh Morgerman, whose video footage of Yolanda’s wreckage was among the first that the world has seen, returns to the province.
In this exciting video, he recounts to Coconuts TV his experiences right where they happened—at the hotel balcony where he first felt the 315 km/h winds make a landfall, on the staircase where he saw the water rise, the moment where he knew he had to stop filming and start helping the family from across the road.
Present-day footage are put side-by-side with footage from when Yolanda hit, allowing for front-row seats to the breadth and depth of the devastation, as well as to the progress of the city’s rebuilding. Hearing Mr. Morgerman recount his experience is hair-raising.
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