Not business as usual, but the bar's open in storm-ravaged Tacloban

[Yahoo! News - Latest]

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Once he had got hold of 20 cases of San Miguel beer, Gerry Ruiz knew he had enough supplies to start serving customers again. The Calle Zaragosa Cafe appears to be the first standalone restaurant or bar to have opened in Tacloban since one of the world's most powerful typhoons reduced much of the central Philippine city to rubble two weeks ago. The storm killed 5,209 people, the National Disaster Agency said on Friday, as it barreled across the central Philippines from east to west, making it the most deadly natural disaster ever to hit the country.

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