TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Super Typhoon Ruby or Hagupit Will Make Landfall in Philippines

Friday, December 5, 2014

Super Typhoon Ruby or Hagupit Will Make Landfall in Philippines

Super Typhoon Ruby or Hagupit is barrelling its way to the Philippines and is expected to make landfall this weekend. Super Typhoon Haiyan or Yolanda had devastated the Philippines 13 months ago.

Filipinos are asking for prayers.

Here are some links:

http://www.weather.com/storms/typhoon/news/super-typhoon-hagupit-ruby-philippines-tacloban

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/12/05/14/typhoon-ruby-lash-philippines-3-days

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30324209

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/breaking-news/2014/12/05/ruby-weakens-signal-no-2-still-cebu-eastern-visayas-380332

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/391239/news/regions/how-cebu-is-bracing-for-typhoon-ruby

Read also
Updates re Typhoon Ruby
Cecilia Brainard"s "Childhood in the Path of Typhoons" - CNN
Jews in the Philippines - 1940-2013
A Northern Cebu Couple's Story of Survival

Tags: supertyphoon, super typhoon, storm, typhoon, Ruby, Hagupit, Cebu, Visayas, Tacloban, Central Philippines, #supertyphoon,

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.