Typhoon Horror: Dead Bodies Everywhere, Woman and Children Beg in Streets

Philippines (CNN) — Surrounded by rubble, children swarm around a public well in this storm-ravaged city, where bodies are still lying in the streets days after a deadly typhoon struck. The children douse themselves with water and fill plastic cups and jugs.The scene on a street in the city of Tacloban is one of many CNN reporters and others have witnessed as residents deal with the death and destruction that Typhoon Haiyan left behind when the massive storm tore through the Philippines: Damaged roads, airports slow storm relief Storm survivors desperate for aid

Amid the swirling, tugging waters, Jenelyn Manocsoc placed her 11-month-old son, Anthony, on her head and hung on to the roof rafters to avoid being swept away.Her husband and many other relatives died. She doesn’t know where she will go next, but at least she and her son are alive.

The residents of Guiuan have waited for days for relief. The town of 50,000, the first to be hit by the typhoon, is a scene of utter devastation.Swimming for their lives

Philippine congressman Martin Romualdez was holed up in his house, as Haiyan’s winds screamed around it, hurling debris at speeds rivaling those of race cars.The wind ripped off the roof of the house. He rushed his kids into the shelter of a car standing nearby to protect them from flying objects.Then the storm surge poured in. “After a few minutes, I see this water gushing in, gushing in really fast, not thinking that the water was going to be rising,” Romualdez said. Typhoon death toll continues to rise Family goes through ceiling to flee storm The car began to fill. His children are good swimmers, he said. So, he got out of the car with them, and they, and Romualdez’ staff, swam for their lives as the waves pushed cars and houses along with them.