Hong Kong (CNN) -- As thousands of traumatized typhoon survivors struggled to escape the stricken city of Tacloban, Gina Ladrera was desperate to get back in. It had been five days since Super Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines coast, obliterating everything in its path. And five days since she'd last heard from her family: husband Pedro Ladrera Jr., and their two children, 10-year-old daughter Kyra and 11-year-old son Kim. For the 39-year-old domestic worker living in Hong Kong, the silence was too much to bear. She had to go back home to find them. And miraculously, she did. READ MORE: Mother's grief as Haiyan aid flows
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Gina Ladrera flew from Hong Kong to Tacloban to find her missing family
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She'd been unable to contact them for days after Super Typhoon Haiyan
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Almost one week after typhoon, she found them alive amid ruins of their home
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Her family survived by clinging to electrical wire on the roof during the storm
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