TYPHOON HAGUPIT STRIKES THE

PHILIPPINES

December 6-8, 2014

Typhoon Hagupit made a

painfully slow landfall at 11

kph (7 mph) in the Philippines

on Saturday, lashing the island

of Samar with 200 kph (125

mph) winds and unloading at

least 40 cm (16 in) of rain over

coastal areas.

Typhoon Hagupit, known

locally asTyphoon Ruby, first

landed at Eastern Samar on

Saturday and moved slowly

across the country, bringing

heavy rains and strong winds.

3 DAYS OF HEAVY

RAINFALL

TYPHOON HAGUPIT:

DECEMBER 7, 2014

At least 21 people in the

Philippines were killed before

Typhoon Hagupit weakened

into a tropical storm Monday.

The storm forced more than

one million people out of their

homes and into shelters.

REMEMBERING SOME OF

THE LESSONS FROM

2013’S TYPHOON

DISASTERS

SUPER TYPHOON HAIYAN

DEVASTATES THE PHILIPPINES;

NOVEMBER 8-10, 2013

HAIYAN REACHED THE

PHILIPPINES: FRIDAY, NOV. 8

LANDFALL ON FRIDAY

MORNING, NOV. 8

WIND AND WATER

PENETRATE BUILDING

ENVELOPE

TYPHOONS

UPLIFT OF ROOF SYSTEM

FLYING DEBRIS PENETRATES

WINDOWS

STORM SURGE

HEAVY PRECIPITATION

FLASH FLOODING

(MUDFLOWS)

LANDSLIDES (MUDFLOWS)

CAUSES

OF RISK

CASE HISTORIES

HAIYAN: A SUPER TYPHOON

RATED AS PROBABLY THE

STRONGEST TYPHOON

EVER TO STRIKE THE

PHILIPPINES

FOUR HOURS OF FEAR AND

DESTRUCTION• Winds flattened hundreds of homes.

• Heavy rainfall triggered mudslides and

flash flooding.

• A storm surge with waves of up to 10 m

(30 feet) destroyed everything,

sweeping people away and drowning

thousands.

SURVIVOR STORIES

• Survivors of the storm

described towering waves that

swept away all but the most

robust engineered structures.

STORM SURGE

AN AERIAL VIEW

• It was like a tsunami," Interior Secretary

Manuel Roxas told Reuters.

• "From a helicopter, you can see the

extent of devastation. From the shore

and moving a kilometer inland, there

are no structures standing.

TACLOBAN (ON LEYTE

ISLAND) HIT THE HARDEST

DESTRUCTION EVERYWHERE

DESTRUCTION EVERYWHERE

DESTRUCTION EVERYWHERE

DESTRUCTION EVERYWHERE

DESTRUCTION AND DEATH

EVERYWHERE

DESTRUCTION EVERYWHERE

TACLOBAN AIRPORT

ADVANCE EVACUATIONS

• 800,000 people were evacuated

to emergency shelters.

AN EVACUATION CENTER

INITIAL IMPACTS IN THE

PHILIPPINES

• Wide spread flooding,

mudslides, and power outages

• Winds of 380 kph (290 mph)

• TACLOBAN hit very hard by the

storm surge with many deaths

• Tacloban’s airport destroyed

INITIAL IMPACTS IN THE

PHILIPPINES

• Loss of communication

• An estimated 10,000 people

dead

• Economic losses in the billions

URGENT SURVIVOR NEEDS

• Survivors were in desperate need of

clean drinking water and food

• Survivors were temporarily cut off from

aid, and from their families in the

Philippines as well as in other

countries (e.g., 3 million in the USA)

USA MILITARY FORCES

DISPATCHED TO ASSIST IN

WHAT BECAME A HISTORIC

RELIEF EFFORT

HAIYAN MOVED TOWARDS

VIETNAM AND CHINA: SAT., NOV 9

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES

HAVE HAD MANY

OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN

VITAL LESSONS

FROM PAST TYPHOONS OF ALL

SIZES MAKING LANDFALL THERE

LESSON: THE TIMING OF

ANTICIPATORY ACTIONS IS VITAL

• The people who know: 1) what to

expect (e.g., high-velocity winds,

rain, flash floods, landslides, and

storm surge), 2) where and when it

will happen, and 3) what they

should (and should not) do to

prepare will survive.

Search and Rescue and Relief

Efforts Were Hampered by

Landslides and Damaged Road

Systems

LESSON: All Kinds of Things Will go

Wrong During the Emergency Response

Period When the Uncontrollable and

Unthinkable Happen.

LESSON: TIMELY EARLY WARNING

AND EVACUATION SAVES LIVES

• The people who have timely early

warning in conjunction with a

community evacuation plan that

facilitates getting out of harm’s way

from the risks associated with

storm surge, high winds, flooding,

and landslides will survive.

LESSON: EMERGENCY MEDICAL

PREPAREDNESS SAVES LIVES

• Damaged hospitals and medical

facilities combined with lack of

clean drinking water, food, and

medicine, and high levels of

morbidity and mortality will quickly

overrun the local community’s

capacity for emergency health care.

LESSON: WIND ENGINEERED

BUILDINGS SAVE LIVES

• Buildings engineered to withstand

the risks from a typhoon’s high

velocity winds will maintain their

function and protect occupants and

users from death and injury.

LESSON: EMERGENCY RESPONSE

SAVES LIVES

• The “Uncontrollable and

Unthinkable” events will always

hinder the timing of emergency

response operations.

LESSON: THE INTERNATIONAL

COMMUNITY ALWAYS PROVIDES AID

• The International Community

provides millions to billions of

dollars in relief to most nations to

help “pick up the pieces, ” but this

strategy is not enough by itself to

ensure disaster resilience.

TYPHOON DISASTER RESILIENCE

POLICIES AND MEASURES ARE

NEEDED BY MANY NATIONS

Preparedness

Adoption and Implementation of a Modern Wind

Engineering Building Code

Time,y Early Warning and Evacuation

Timely Emergency Response (including

Emergency Medical Services)

Cost-Effective Recovery

PAST TYPHOON SEASONS

SEVEN PAST DEADLY

TYPHOONS

• SUPER TYPHOON MEGI (OCT. 2010)--

.—11 DEATHS

• TYPHOON DURIAN (2006); 400 DEATHS

IN THE PHILIPPINES

• TROPICAL STORM THELMA (1991);

1,000’S DEAD IN THE PHILIPPINES

• TYPHOON TIP (JULY- AUGUST, 1975) –

100 DEATHS IN CHINA

SEVEN DEADLY TYPHOONS

(Continued)

• TYPHOON NINA (JULY - AUGUST,

1922)—100,000 DEATHS IN CHINA

• TYPHOON SWATOW (SEPT. 1881)--

60,000 DEATHS IN VIETNAM

• TYPHOON HAIPONG –300,000

DEATHS AND THOUSANDS OF SEA

VESSELS DESTROYED IN GULF OF

TONKIN

SUPER TYPHOON ROKE

IMPACTED JAPAN: SEPT. 2011

SUPER TYPHOON ROKE

SEPT. 2011

TYPHOON MEGI:

TAIWAN; OCT. 2010

TYPHOON MEGI:

THE PHILIPPINES; OCT. 2010

PARMA IMPACTED THE

PHILIPPINEW: OCT. 2009

TYPHOON PARMA: THE

PHILIPPINES; OCT. 2009

TYPHOON FENGSHEN IMPACTS

THE PHILIPPINES: JUNE 2008

TYPHOON FENGSHEN:

THE PHILIPPINES; JUNE, 2008

TYPHOON MELOR: OCT., 2007

TYPHOON MINDULLE : 2003