TYPHOON YOLING WAS HERE

At first it looked just like an ordinary rain. Then the wind blew. It blew harder and harder.

Finally, typhoon Yoling was in Manila. That was at noon of November 19,1970.The strong winds destroyed lots of things. Buses, jeepneys and taxis stopped plying the streets by noontime. Several airplanes on the ground were tossed like children’s toys. The heavy rain flooded most of the streets. People stayed in their homes.

When the typhoon was over, many people were homeless .All over the streets lay broken branches, uprooted trees, torn roofs and signboard. Roofs of many houses, churches, schools, hospital and markets were blown away. There was no current because many electric posts were blown down. Because of this, there was no water, too. More than two hundred people were killed and several hundreds were missing.

That was TYPOON YOLING-the strongest typhoon to hit Manila in 88 years.