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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

How Filipinos deal with disaster

As we know Philippines is prone to typhoons in fact there are more or less 20 typhoons in a year.
I checked wikipedia to know which are the deadliest storm to hit Philippines.

Deadliest


Rank↓Storm↓Dates of impact↓Deaths↓
1Thelma/Uring 1991November 2–7 , 19915,101-8,000[6]
2September 1867 TyphoonSeptember 20, 18671,800[14]
3October 1897 TyphoonOctober 7, 18971,500[14]
4Fengshen/Frank 2008June 20–23, 20081410
5Durian/Reming 2006November 29-December 1, 20061,399
6October 1617 TyphoonOctober 10, 16171,000[14]
7Amy 1951December 6–19, 1951991[15]
8Nina/Sisang 1987November 23–27, 1987979
9Angela/Rosing 1995October 30-November 4, 1995936
10Agnes/Undang 1984November 3–6, 1984895

Most destructive


Costliest Philippine typhoons
RankNamesDates of impactPHPUSDRef
1Parma, (Pepeng)September 30 - October 14, 200927.3 billion608 million[16]
2Fengshen, (Frank)June 18 -23, 200813.5 billion301 million[17]
3Ketsana, (Ondoy)September 23 -29, 200911 billion244 million[16]
4Mike, (Ruping)November 10 - 14, 199010.8 billion241 million[18]
5Angela, (Rosing)October 30 - November 4, 199510.8 billion241 million[18]
6Flo, (Kadiang)September 30 - October 7, 19938.75 billion195 million[18]
7Megi (Juan)October 18 - October 22, 20108.32 billion193 million[19]
8Muifa (Unding),Merbok (Violeta),WinnieNovember 14–30, 20047.45 billion166 million[20]
9Babs, (Loleng)October 15 - 24 19986.79 billion151 million[18]
10Xangsane, (Milenyo)September 25 - 30, 20066.61 billion147 million[18]

here are some picture on how we Filipinos deal with it.






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