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Tacloban, Philippines (CNN) -- Juvelyn Taniega walks down a desolate road and points toward the barren landscape where her home once stood.
When Typhoon Haiyan tore through Tacloban, she says, the house she lived in with her husband and six children was one of the first to fall down. They huddled inside a bus, seeking shelter from the storm surge.
She survived, but they were swept away in the rushing waters. Now, Taniega is searching for their remains.
"I really want to see them," she told
AC360, "even if it's just their bodies."
Taniega found the bodies of her husband and three of her children. But she's still searching for three other children. She doesn't believe they survived the storm.
And she doesn't know where she'll sleep.
"Here, in the street," she said. "Anywhere. I don't know where I go."
In Tacloban, one of many cities dealing with death and destruction that Typhoon Haiyan left behind, survivors say there's nowhere left to go.
Haunted by the sounds of the storm
Days after the deadly typhoon struck, the sounds Jenelyn Manocsoc heard during the storm still haunt her.
"Many cries, many people crying," she said, sobbing. "Many people saying, 'help, help.' "
Amid the swirling, tugging waters, Manocsoc placed her 11-month-old son, Anthony, on her head. She hung on to the roof rafters to avoid being swept away.
They survived, but her husband and other relatives were killed in the storm. She doesn't know where she will go next, but at least she and her son are alive.
"It's very traumatic," she said, cradling Anthony in her arms. "It's very hard."
Looking for food
Authorities have said that supplies are on the way to some of the hardest-hit areas. But desperate residents told CNN affiliate ABS-CBN that time was running out.
"Our house got demolished," one woman told
ABS-CBN. "My father died after being hit by falling wooden debris. We are calling for your help. If possible, please bring us food. We don't have anything to eat."
As they searched for loved ones lost in the storm, survivors asked for help.
One man told ABS-CBN he was still trying to find six family members.
"My child has been buried in that island," he said.
Another man begged for forgiveness because he couldn't save his daughter from the typhoon's wrath.
"We all got separated from each other when the strong waves hit," he told ABS-CBN. "We got separated. I couldn't even hold on to my child."
Surrounded by rubble, children swarm around a public well in the storm-ravaged city of Tacloban, where bodies are still lying in the streets.
The children douse themselves with water and fill plastic cups and jugs.
"Even though we're not sure that it is clean and safe," Roselda Sumapit said, "we still drink it, because we need to survive."
"The waves just came so fast," Romualdez said. "But worse than that was the wind. The wind was just so strong that the visibility was about 10-15 feet. There's no way that you could even look, because it was so strong that it practically pulled out your eyes."
Maelene Alcala heard wind banging on her Tacloban hotel room's windows as the storm hit.
"The typhoon was so severe that we could feel our ears popping," she
told CNN's iReport.
It wasn't long before she heard banging again, this time on the door of the hotel. But the source of the sound was different. Desperate residents were looking for help.
"We let them in and saw children, women and men crying and telling (how) their houses were destroyed by the storm surge," she said.
