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Dawgpound_Hank
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Talk about lucky, fortunate, blessed or whatever you wanna call it - we didn't get anything here from the typhoon. I mean even no breeze at all - it only rained lightly for a few hours and that's it. I thank God bigtime. I'm about 30 miles North of Manila, and it hit much further south. Man I pity the people that were in it's path. They say it's the most powerful hurricane ever to make landfall with sustained winds that were 195mph and gusts to 230pmh. Camille held the previous record at 190mph when making landfall. Sad thing about it is that so many of the people over here are so poor that they just live in small shannies/shacks that been thrown together with random pieces of wood, bamboo, tin, whateva. They aren't much shelter when a storm like this comes along.