Typhoon Haiyan 2013

• Location: Philippines, Asia - 2000 inhabited islands (+ 5500 uninhabited)
• Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale is the most powerful and destructive.
• Winds of 170 mph and waves 15m high
• Impact: 6300 dead
• Impact: 600000 people displaced, 40000 homes damaged
• Impact: Tacloban airport badly damaged
• Impact: 30000 fishing boats destroyed
• Impacts: International aid arrived quickly
• Impacts: US aircraft carrier & helicopters for search & rescue
• Impacts: 1200 evacuation centres set up
• Impacts: France, Israel & Belgium set up field hospitals
• Responses: Flooding caused landslides, cutting off access
• Responses: Power supplies cut off for a month
• Responses: Shortages of food and water led to disease outbreaks
• Responses: Looting and violence broke out in Tacloban
• Responses: Rebuilding of roads, bridges and airport
• Responses: 'Cash for Work' programme to help clear and rebuild
• Responses: Fishing and rice farming quickly re-established
• Responses: Cyclone shelters built to protect coastal communities
• This was one of the strongest storms ever recorded
• Most of the destruction in Tacloban was caused by a storm surge, which swept away anything in its path
• The Philippines is a NEE. The high levels of destruction meant that help came from all corners of the globe, through the United Nations and individual nations
• The cost of rebuilding was estimated at around $5.8 billion. A year after the storm, thousands of people were still living in temporary shelters.