(BusinessMirror) IN 2013, typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) took the lives of about 6,300 people, displaced over 6 million Filipinos, and in its destructive path left 28,689 injured, and 1.6 million homeless. Yolanda was a global upheaval that gained international attention and took meteorologists somewhat back to school since the typhoon was really unprecedented.
This was followed by another devastating typhoon called Odette (international code name: Rai) just last year. It managed to uproot 10.6 million people from their homes, with fatalities reaching a total of 457 lives, showing the value of early-warning systems and other disaster risk reduction measures put in place… Read More
