I feared for 8 hours. A typhoon swept into the central Philippines on Saturday. Typhoon Utor is the second storm to batter the archipelago in as many weeks and brought gusts of up to 150 km (94 miles) per hour and heavy rain to the island of Samar, next to Leyte, the island where my wife is from, about 600 km southeast of Manila.
Utor was upgraded from a tropical storm to a category 1 typhoon, with 5 being the maximum, earlier on Saturday.
Thank God, I could contact her around 11am my time. Her cellphone regained signal and I spoke with her. She was traveling from her province to Tacloban, capital of Leyte. Normally, it takes two to three hours. At midnight, she still did not reached her destination, but at least I know she's out of the typhoon now.
I am going there in 2 days right in the middle of the series of typhoons, but it's okay, I rather be with her then not.
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