Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda

The Event

Category 5 supertyphoon600 km widespeed japanese bullet trainmore powerful than katrinaHit land hours earlier than anticipatedglass windows on second storey shattered turned into bulletsIsland called Latobarangay=communityNovember 3-11Haiyan = Yolanda

s/t impacts

Affected 13 million people1/3 of survivors homelessTananuan cut off for daysTananuan town 50,000 people. CBD hugged shoreentire c=families lostlost livestock, coconut farms

L/t impacts

L/T problem of fighting infection from living in pools of stagnant waterPeople get fresh injuries as they pick through the debrismalaria, choleraPTSD- 1.7 million homeless childrengas prices doubled from 60 pesos to 120 pesos- hard on economy

Response

Stay indoors- many who died on level 1individual response to climb on roofsmass graves near churches and schoolsliving on rice, coffee, canned goodsrely on world of mouth to know if aid has comelist of names of missing/deadforced migration to capital manilapeople clear roads so aid can comeneed for water, medicine, mosquito netslocal govt. expected to be 1st respondersTown Hall used as hospital-lost hand of roof-infection from dirty waterDeputy Mayor trained doctorsurgical team from japan performing operations- 170 in the space of just a few dayspeople lay boards on ground to elevate/get out of water

locals set up street stalls- entrepreneurialreconstruction- changing tananuan's layoutcreate no-build zone hugging shorelineif survive storm go to mania or else die of hunger

Management

thought were ready because 20 storms/year but this was worst5m high wall of water destroyed emergency suppliesprediction- map on computer colous changes with changing surface pressure to predict hotspotLEDC but had nice clean houses, roadschurches used as evacuation centresLook at infrared signal and satellite presentation to determine category of storm