Being in an eerily deserted city with all its businesses closed, trying to sleep three to a queen-size bed while berserk winds moan and trees bend to the ground, and then waking up in a home with no electricity, no telephone and, outside, a crazy salad of torn tree limbs scattered over the landscape — all these are considered unacceptable living conditions in the modern world.
Its winds lashed at the house's exterior and tore down trees nearby.
The typhoon, the sixth to hit the Philippines this year, tore up trees and power lines.
A sudden storm swept through Port-au-Prince on Friday, killing at least five earthquake survivors as it tore down trees, billboards and tent homes, the authorities said.
It crumpled chain-link fences like paper, tossed concrete breakwaters, tore up trees, smashed through the backs of houses and blew out their fronts, swept whole houses away.
They tore down trees and shrubs that Mr. Kaplowitz says he believes could have retained water, and laid down driveways that he said would act as funnels.
More than 150 residents rushed into two town shelters near the school and crowded inside, waiting as the winds tore up trees, downed power lines, tore the roofs from buildings and flipped over cars and trucks.
The protests started late on Monday after developers tore up trees to make way for the controversial construction project featuring a shopping centre in nostalgic Ottoman style and building a replica of an old military barracks.
The French and Spanish governments called on their armies to help with recovery efforts after winds of more than 100 miles an hour tore down trees and power lines and whipped up huge waves that pummeled coastlines.
It had miraculously survived a wind that tore entire trees from their roots in the rest of Bucharest.
