Locals and tourists in Siargao dealt a devastating blow when the island’s famous bent palm tree, which served ... after it was ravaged by Typhoon Odette (international name: Rai) in December ...

AS officials struggle to re-establish communication lines with Siargao — the country’s surfing capital that was hit during super typhoon Odette ... most coconut trees sliced in half, power ...

Tourists and residents on Monday recalled how Typhoon Odette battered surfers' paradise Siargao, one of the best resort ... Also damaged was the usually Instagram-ready Coconut Road. Martha Jante ...

SURIGAO del Sur farmers adversely affected by Typhoon “Odette ... rice fields and coconut trees were felled by the typhoon. “From what we saw when we inspected Siargao, more than 60 percent ...

The most surprising thing about Super Typhoon Odette, in our land that serves ... It is impossible to save every coconut tree from being flattened by peak winds of 260 kph, but people can at ...

coconut tree-filled island was brown and broken,” she recalled. GONE. Lola Estrera stares at what remains of the family house days after Typhoon Odette destroyed 80% of Siargao structures in ...

Typhoon Haiyan - one of the most powerful storms to make landfall ever recorded - swept through the central Philippines on Friday. Evelina, from Palo on the island of Leyte, told Newsday on the ...

Seeing large areas of the Visayas and Mindanao, including the tourism meccas of Siargao and Bohol, reduced to wasteland by Super Typhoon Odette ... nearby forests or coconut trees, plus it ...