Typhoon Haiyan, one of the mostpowerful typhoons ever recorded, slammed into the Philippines onNov. 8, setting off landslides, knocking out power in one entireprovince, and cutting communications in the country's centralregion of island provinces.

Early estimates predict the typhoon killed approximately 10,000people and displaced more than 600,000. The United Nations saidsome survivors had no food, water or medicine. Relief operationswere hampered because roads, airports and bridges had beendestroyed or were covered in wreckage, it said.

Click “next” to see scenes of the devastation in thePhilippines, especially the hard-hit Tacloban city.

An aerial image taken from a PhilippineAir Force helicopter shows the devastation of the first landfall bytyphoon Haiyan in Guiuan, Eastern Samar province, centralPhilippines on Nov. 11, 2013. Authorities said at least 2 millionpeople in 41 provinces had been affected by Haiyan and at least23,000 houses had been damaged or destroyed.

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A large boat sits on top of destroyedhomes after it was washed ashore by strong waves caused by TyphoonHaiyan, in Tacloban city, Leyte province . Typhoon Haiyan, one ofthe strongest storms on record, slammed into six central Philippineprovinces Friday leaving a wide swath of destruction and hundredsof people dead.

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Tacloban Airport is covered bydebris.

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A survivor walks beside another shipthat was washed ashore, hitting makeshift houses near an oil depot,in Tacloban city. The typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands faced anunimaginably huge recovery effort that had barely begun Monday, asbodies lay uncollected and uncounted in the streets and survivorspleaded for food, water and medicine.

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Survivors look up at a military C-130plane as it arrives at Tacloban city. Stunned survivors pickedthrough the remains of their homes Monday and pleaded for food andmedicine as the Philippines struggled to deal with what is likelyits deadliest natural disaster.

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A man and his family bring the remainsof his one-year-old baby in a makeshift wooden coffin in Taclobancity.

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Survivors move past the damage to homesand automobiles caused by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban city.

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Residents watch as others throw goodsfrom a warehouse in Guiuan, Eastern Samar province, after typhoonHaiyan devastated the town.

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An Armoured Personnel Carrier patrolsthe streets of downtown to maintain order as reports of rampantlooting spreads in Tacloban city.

(AP Photo/Aaron Favila)