FromOurArchives: A study assesses Tacloban's vulnerability to climate change impacts – including storms like Yolanda.
DEVASTATION IN TACLOBAN. A general shot shows houses destroyed by the strong winds caused by typhoon Yolanda at Tacloban, eastern island of Leyte on November 9, 2013. AFP/Noel Celis
There are many reasons why Tacloban was among the cities worst-hit by nightmare-turned-reality Super Typhoon Yolanda . Some of these reasons were predicted by the study that resulted from the scenario-building exercises in Tacloban. The document aims to help local government leaders, city planners and the business sector create strategies to ensure the city's survival and strengthen its economy in the face of disaster.
"It's a year-long project where we look at 20 years of data and use it to forecast 30- to 50-year scenarios. Then we added inputs from local stakeholders through the scenario-building exercise," he explained. Land subsidence also happens when humans draw water from the soil for drinking, bathing and other uses. The extraction of water creates spaces between soil particles. When the roof over these spaces cannot support all the intact soil above it, it collapses thereby lowering the level of soil on the surface.
These could have been used as evacuation centers but because they too were close to the shore, they were among the structures first inundated by the storm surge.
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