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"Last November, the drive from the airport into Tacloban showed a flattened city: piles of rubble chest-high either side of the road, cars and minibuses hurled into the roofs of buildings by the force of the storm surge and thousands of families sheltering in the city’s convention centre.

"The ships that were hurled through the middle of residential areas by the force of the waves are still there, but people have continued to build around or quite literally inside them. Hotels have started to re-open, electricity is back and the once-ubiquitous some-time strangled cat sound of Filipino karaoke is returning to colour the evenings..."

Read more of our latest blog from the DFID team in the Philippines, six months on from Typhoon Haiyan: dfid.blog.gov.uk/2014/05/07/after-the-storm-stories-from-...

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