‘It’s Really a Miracle’: How a Typhoon Haiyan Survivor Found His Way Home

On the morning Typhoon Haiyan tore through the Philippines, 56-year-old Peter Borromeo fell off the grid.

Days before the typhoon was scheduled for landfall in Tacloban City, meteorologists had already called it “one of the strongest storms ever recorded in modern history.” But Borromeo, a real-estate agent, had experienced his share of natural disasters in central Philippines and saw little reason to evacuate.

“I thought that Yolanda [the local name of Typhoon Haiyan] was just like the past calamities that I experienced,” Borromeo said. “I realized it was ten times stronger that anything I experienced in the past.” Read more…

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