masukuma wrote:Sansa wrote:timuka wrote:Magigi wrote:Typhoon haiyaN is believed to have killed upto 10000 people In phIlIpInes. Wapi Bob Colmore na mpesa number number... quite sad...
this was despite weeks of advance warning and repeated calls by their government urging people to evacuate
You might be told to evacuate but the storm finds you wherever you manage to go or you find you don't have the money to transport you and your family wherever you need to go.
its cyclone season... you are in a country that faces the pacific to the west and cyclones hit you guys yearly. what do you do when gava says - evacuate?
You do what you can to evacuate. However, you still might not be safe especially in low lying areas like these. Look at the images here:
Surge LevelThen we have this statement here: "Authorities had evacuated hundreds of thousands of people before the typhoon arrived, but many evacuation centres - schools, churches and government buildings - proved unable to withstand the winds and storm surges."
Don't forget that storms also do things that no one might have planned for like Katrina and Sandy.