From the southeast Asian capital city of the Philippine Islands, Manila, typhoon ravaged Philippines, that would be.

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I'm Mark Bell. Well, as you know, Typhoon Durian, which is a...

Typhoon, actually, Durian, the name durian is a nasty little fruit that grows here.

Actually, it's quite good.

They make candy out of it and so forth and so on, but durian is a fruit which grows a, it's kind of like a, can I say this?

It's got of like a, how can I say this? It's got, it's got long, protruding things coming from it, that if it actually fell from a tree and hit you on the head, it would kill you.

So it's a nasty fruit in a way.

And it's probably a good name for a nasty typhoon.

I saw Durian coming long ahead of time, and I thought, surely here in Manila, we were doomed.

They had the eye of Durian coming right over Manila, and so we were all preparing this time for the worst, truly the worst.

We thought that was it.

And I thought, you know, if these kind of wins hit the capital city here, it's going to just be, there's not going to be anything left.

And for several days, the track remained showing it going right over downtown Manila, you know,

right over Makadia.

It just would have been horrible.

Then at the very last moment, the eye took a slight jog to the south.

And when I say the last moment, I really mean the last moment.

It took a slight jog to the south. And when I say the last moment, I really mean the last moment. It took a slight jog to the south. And of course, the results are now known of that. We still got hit hard

here, but to the south of us, it was awful. The ash and the boulders that had been building

up since an eruption in July, high on the slopes of the Mayan volcano, let go.

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