With the wind of 220 kilometer per hour speed and gustiness of 300 kph, supertyphoon Lawin (Haima) was one of the strongest typhoon our province have experienced. It’s been a long time a warning storm signal number 4 devastated the province and the region.
Aftermath the disaster, looking around the surrounding you can see a fallen trees and bananas, leaves scattered all over the places, wrecked houses, floods. But not us, we survived and we strongly stood again after the typhoon.
In Ilocos Sur, provincial governor Ryan Singson said in an interview that a State Of Calamity may declare on Monday because of heavy damaged that it caused in the province. In agriculture it was estimated to P300 million and expected to climbed up to P500 million; P300 also in infrastructure and may also go up in the succeeding day; the number of houses damaged, partially or totally damaged, have not yet identified; most of the villages in the provinces have no electricity and some areas may take 10 days until fully restoration.
The good news is that there is no casualty reported. Unlike last year, during the Typhoon Mario, when the centuries old trees and there are number of people caught in the storm and considered casualties of the typhoon. Typhoon Haima might be stronger but because of preparation of the people and local government unit, we are spared.
That is true, two days before the storm came, LGU have already convening their local disaster risk disaster management center. Identifying the evacuation center in the town, what barangay are at risk and need to evacuate the people, checking the communication equipment and rescue vehicles, packing the relief goods for operation. And most of all, telling the people to be ready and secure their places while the storm has not yet arrived.
Thanks goodness, only the properties are damaged but not life; only the houses are shattered but not the dreams. And like our classic example of a Filipino, we are like bamboo who can always bend down in the wind then stand later.
We survived Haima.###
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It is nice to know that we were able to survive the Lawin's typhoon. Unfortunately, I think there are 8 people died in the cordillera. But then, the bright side that we were not able to experience a disaster like in typhoon Yolanda. I hope there will be no super typhoon to come in our country.
You are lucky that your place was spared from the wrath of Lawin. You said that there was no casualty in your place. But in other place, it was reported that there were 8 dead and 2 were missing. This is the second super typhoon that hit the Philippines. The first one was in 2013 at the province of Tacloban. It was typhoon Yolanda. There were many casualties had been reported. They even reached to 10,000. Tacloban was badly hit or totally devastated by typhoon Yolanda.
The people there mourned for several days or even months. That incident was highly politicized. It became the issue on the latest Presidential elections. It became the source of all forms of anomalies, graft and corruption. That brought the non winning of Presidential aspirant Mar Roxas because of the issue of non delivery of the welfare goods to the victims of the typhoon. it's indeed the worst governance whatsoever.
Typhoons are natural disasters may appear in any country with the decree of God but lucky are those remained safe in this typhoon destruction someone said that only eight peoples died and were saved by the stroke of luck. May Allah preserve all the peoples the victims of the horrible typhoon.
I have oftenly wondered how those typhoons get their names. Maybe you can share on that so that we know how they come about. Typhoon Mario, halima you know it may sound funny to us but we don't laught at the situation just the names amaze me. Anyway first and foremost i feel really sad when I watch on television to see how these typhoons wreck havoc and leave people homeless and poor. Starting off all over again is usually th3 hardest thing that anyone would have to go through. The first time I saw it on tv it was when it swept through Florida I think I can't even remember the name, it was very popular and I saw how it swept over buildings, cars, brideges and stuff it looked like a horror movie to me. You know this are things we watch only on tv sometimes and it is a devastaing time for The residents. In our country they are just normal floods not typhoons. Anyway it's a good thing that no deaths were reported and that people came out safe.
Typhoons are quite natural in the Philippines. The people adjusted themselves to the adverse circumstances and other natural calamities. The frequent typhoons in the regions have taught a lot of lessons to the Filipinos.
The last typhoon has made them how to equip themselves to the natural disaster. The Disaster Management and Warning signal system have contributed a lot in the timely evacuation of the people from the typhoon-affected areas. The people were informed well in advance. Necessary food and water supply arrangements have already been taken up on war footing basis.
The previous presidents though responded effectively there was a loss of human lives in the previous typhoon. The people were made to stay above the trees for days together. The food supply system was not alerted. The rescue operations were not taken up in time. Everything was politicized and the opposition tried to make use of the situation to the maximum benefit of winning the elections.
The president is different now. The people are feeling the responsibility now. They are no more irresponsible and inactive. Everything is taking up as per planning with devotion and dedication.
Typhoons are very dangerous.May Allah save us all from these disasters.I red about this in Newspaper and watched on you tube i can feel how hard it will be for the people over there.We experienced Earthquake in Pakistan in 2005.It was a big deserter all the houses were damaged in our area and almost every house there were at least single death were reported.It relly was a hard time.The time was morning 8.00am when it happen mostly people are sleeping on that time that is way many people were died who were still on bed.They didnt know that they will never wakeup again.