Catagory 5 Super Typhoon
The people of the Philippines were able to predict where the Typhoon was likely to hit and therefore could evacuate 800,000 people.
The Philippines has had 182 disasters since 2002 but this was the most devastating typhoon since 1990. And it was the largest typhoon/cyclone that hit land to be recorded and hit record wind speed.
Why was this one so large? Global climate change?!?!?!?!
The typhoon hit where there was a large density of people with poorly constructed houses causing a lot of destruction and deaths. Even though they evacuated many people and are used to disasters, the relief efforts had a hard time getting to them because of damage to transportation. Evacuation areas also were low on supplies and food leaving many people hungry for days.
Now the Philippines is recovering in a mess filled with corpses, flooded villages, broken houses, and crops that have been uprooted. Many of the people are left without jobs as well. There are efforts to help rebuild the damaged areas of the Philippines and start to put up defenses to help prevent some destruction for future events.
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