What impacts have there been after the Typhoon Yolanda?
Unfortunately, after Typhoon Yolanda, many pregnant women were faced with acute food shortages and a lack of safe drinking water and clothes.
What was the damage of the Typhoon Yolanda?
The typhoon, which damaged 1.14 million houses in 2013, triggered the evacuation of more than a million families or about 5.13 million individuals at the height of its onslaught. The total cost of damage was placed at P95. 5 billion.
How did Yolanda affect the environment?
Environmental impacts The Philippine government estimated that about 71,000 hectares of farmland was affected. Thousands of trees were uprooted leading to a massive release of carbon dioxide and loss of habitat with resulting effects on wildlife.
What do you think happened in November 2013 in Tacloban Leyte was that a tsunami or a flood surge?
Typhoon Haiyan pushed devastating 5 m high storm surge into Tacloban City, Philippines. Extreme high wind speeds of almost 300 km/h during typhoon Haiyan caused a storm surge in San Pedro Bay, the Philippines.
What is the impact of Typhoon Yolanda in environmental perspective?
What did the Philippine government do after Typhoon Yolanda?
The DPWH cleared and made passable 18 national roads and bridges affected by typhoon Yolanda, allowing for the deployment of 51 million pesos worth of relief assistance to affected families. The DOH deployed more than a hundred doctors and nurses to treat the injured and sick in Tacloban.
What are the effects of typhoon in our community?
Typhoons bring strong winds and heavy rains resulting in flooding, great damage to crops, houses and buildings, and death due to accidents. Climate change affects the increase in the intensity of typhoons.
What are the effects of super Typhoon Yolanda the time it hits in the Philippines?
Typhoon Yolanda caused severe damage to some of the Philippines biggest sources of income, destroying coconut farms all over the islands, leaving over a million coconut farmers without a means to support themselves as they’ve had to wait years for their farms to recover.