
Children look for escape —
These two young boys wait patiently to get on a plane out of storm-ravaged Tacloban on November 13.

Stacked up and waiting —
Relief aid waits to be distributed at Tacloban's battered and chaotic airport on November 13.

Scattered and destroyed —
An abandoned van lies amid the vast sea of debris around a village close to Tacloban's airport on November 14.

Destructive power —
Photo of Tacloban's airport days after the typhoon ripped through it. "There was destruction as far as the eye could see," said CNN's Armie Jarin-Bennett.

Ruined roads —
Getting around the devastated area was made difficult by the damage done to an already crumbling infrastructure -- this road to the airport is now a mud track.

Reduced to nothing —
Many people lost everything they owned in the space of a few hours, as this image from Tacloban on November 14 shows.



