The super typhoon is the worst event Lily Montejo can remember in Tacloban . Montejo , more than 80 years old and a mother of four children said she was praying for her family to be safe as they fled their home on Monday morning. ` the apocalypse '' Reports from 1897 and 1912 suggest previous big typhoons in the region . But uncertainty about the death tolls makes it unclear if they were as deadly as Haiyan .
The super typhoon is the worst event Lily Montejo can remember in Tacloban . Montejo , more than 80 years old , she says she thought it was `` the apocalypse '' Reports from 1897 and 1912 suggest previous big typhoons in the region . But uncertainty about the death tolls makes it unclear if they were as deadly as Haiyan .