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Filipinos start over in city wiped out by typhoon
Posted by LA Times: Alexandra Zavis on November 19th, 2013
LA Times: Rising from a sea of debris, the small, rickety shell of a new house already was beginning to take shape.
Rolito Solayao worked swiftly Monday, using pieces of wood and nails scavenged from the wreckage of this coastal city. His wife swept dirt from the concrete floor, the only part of their home that survived when Typhoon Haiyan tore through the central Philippines on Nov. 8.
Asked her name, she let out a weary laugh: Yolanda, the name Filipinos gave to the storm.
More than a week after...