Cgb,
Yes, Tacloban. I snapped the picture from a BBC World News bulletin.
Such a devastating event. Just before landfall, the winds were 170 kts, gusting to 200 kts. The central pressure was 858 mb!
Here in Vietnam, we were lucky. The typhoon intensity decayed very rapidly over the South China Sea and it then tracked further north than predicted and by the time it made landfall, it was a tropical storm. Still a lot of damage though, but not on the same scale as Leyte.
One of our frequent posters on AH&N, Phileas Fogg, lives on an island southeast of Leyte. I sent him a PM the day after the typhoon struck to see if he was OK and much to my surprise, got an almost immediate response. He and his resort had survived, but one of the words he used to describe the experience was "frightening".
Cgb has control.