Manicani today. Two of the more than 400 houses built by Nickel Asia Corporation for victims of Yolanda.GUIUAN, Eastern Samar – It was in this town at the southernmost tip of Samar Island that typhoon Yolanda (international name, Haiyan), packing winds at 380 kilometers per hour, that made its first landfall at wee hours of Nov. 8, one year ago.
After four hours of howling, spine-tingling winds, only a few buildings and houses remained with roofs. Electric posts were toppled. Trees were uprooted. The sturdy coconut trees looked beaten with leaves dangling from the top.
Of the more than 47,000 population of Guiuan, more than two thousand were injured. A hundred perished.
