Central philippines, people thrown from barges into rough seas left floating upanddown in life bets and pulled to safety. There is danger on shore with massive waves crash on to island homes. 750,000 people forced to evacuate neighborhoods. Some have returned to comb through the debris of splintered structures. They the lucky ones. Officials say two people were could be much higher because the Energy Systems are down. The past the philippines is optimistic. As always, no storm can bring a unite the filipino people to its knees. Typhoon haiyan is 300 miles wide but forecasters say this storm could have been much worse. It has been a fast mover storm. That has spared the islands where the major dangers of flood. A project pearl in the bay area has a relief drive for victims as it did in 2011 when another storm hit the philippines, killing 1,900. Project pearl drive is from 10 00 to 2 00 on sunday in san bruno. We have more information on both efforts on our website at abc7news. Com. Our
One way ticket north
In Color
But you can t see what those shades of gray keep covered
You should ve seen it in color
Songwriters: Jamey Johnson / Lee Miller / Lee Thomas Miller / James Otto
If I had known we weren t going to return, leaving would have felt much different. We packed what little there was to pack into Mother and headed back to civilization. The most vivid part of the trip back through Mexico was my mom (not to be confused with Mother ) throwing a screaming fit. Russ, my step-dad, had decided to take a different route back and we traversed the Sierra Madre Oriental. To be fair to him, I don t think he realized how freaky scary the roads would be. To be fair to my mom, they were