Goni leaves devastation across the Philippines

MANILA » A village buried in mud and rock. An island of 260,000 people cut off from the outside world. Tens of thousands huddled in evacuation centers during a pandemic. The Philippines rushed to assess the damage on Monday after Super Typhoon Goni, the world’s strongest storm this year, carved a trail of devastation a day earlier. With peak winds reaching 195 mph, the stormwas comparable to Super Typhoon Haiyan, which killed about 6,000 people in 2013. Goni, known locally as Rolly, dodged the Manila region late Sunday but left 125 cities and towns without electricity.

About 2 million people were in the path of the storm.