Spain, Japan, the US, and Ondoy

The Philippines can just never catch a break. Typhoon Ondoy left a month's worth of rain in Manila in just 12 hours. (See video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYrSYTIT3k0&feature=related) The destruction is heartbreaking. I wonder how long it will take to bring Manila back to what it was before the typhoon. The "Paris of the East", as Manila was once known to the world before WWII, continues to sink.