Weather

Hmm…It has started to turn cold here, but I’m glad that I’m not living in American Samoa

A huge emergency effort is under way in the Samoan islands after tsunami waves triggered by an 8.0 earthquake left scores dead and flattened or submerged entire villages.

At least 111 people are confirmed killed in Samoa, neighboring American Samoa and Tonga. Officials in the Pacific region have expressed fears the toll will rise as rescue workers struggle to reach outlying villages.

or the Philippines.

Ketsana left at least 246 people dead as it passed over the Philippines. Another 38 people are still missing, according to the nation’s National Disaster Coordinating Council.

Nearly two million people have been affected by the killer storm and 567,000 people had been evacuated.

Ketsana comes only weeks after the region was ravaged by another storm –- Typhoon Morakot – which claimed the lives of almost 400 people in Taiwan.

A damaged boat washed up inside a building in Pago Pago, American Samoa.

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