A massive typhoon packing winds approaching 200 mph and called one of the most powerful storms ever recorded blasted into the Philippines on Friday, killing at least four people.
 
Forecasters warned of potentially catastrophic damage. Trees were down, power was out in parts of the country, there was widespread flooding and communication with the hardest-hit areas was knocked out, making it difficult to get a full sense of the damage.
 
Two people were electrocuted in storm-related accidents, one person was killed by a fallen tree and another was struck by lightning, official reports said.
 
Super Typhoon Haiyan made morning landfall at Guiuan, a small city in Samar province in the eastern Philippines. The U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center said maximum sustained winds were 195 mph, with gusts to 235 mph.
          Houses destroyed by Typoon Haiyan in Tacloban, on the island of leyte in the Philippineson Haiyan hit the shoreline in Legazpi city, about 325 miles south of Manila, Philippines
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Many people were staying at the school with no foods and all of their houses were destroyed!sad