Researchers draw a bitter balance sheet:
The Filipinos were ill-prepared for the typhoon . And, although the risk was
known and had days lead . Felix Lill
What is a house, what a car, an animal or a human? Where Typhoon Haiyan has raged most , you do not know that these days. The storm has churned out all crushed and durchgequirlt . Trees , boats, tin roofs . And then he spat it back to the people - or even with them in it.
Who now looks from the air to the Philippines , sees something that resembles a gigantic dump. Boats are there where cars drove past . Car wrecks where children played otherwise .
What is a house, what a car, an animal or a human? Where Typhoon Haiyan has raged most , you do not know that these days. The storm has churned out all crushed and durchgequirlt . Trees , boats, tin roofs . And then he spat it back to the people - or even with them in it.
Who now looks from the air to the Philippines , sees something that resembles a gigantic dump. Boats are there where cars drove past . Car wrecks where children played otherwise .
Frightening. And even more frightening is
that we already know of such images. After the Indian Ocean tsunami in December
2004, it looked at the coasts of Thailand and numerous Indonesian islands
exactly - and worse - from . And in 2011 , after a tsunami triggered by Japan's
tsunami had flooded East Coast, we received similar images from Fukushima.
Wanted to learn to be better prepared for these disasters , develop early warning systems and operate better Coastal protection . How that would go , you should know that in Asia. It was simply a little . And now they are back , the images of destruction.
" From the global experience of the past years, we have to take as much as possible," warned even a year ago Mahmoud Mohieldin at a conference in 2011 severely affected by earthquake and tsunami Sendai. The Egyptian politician is one of the World Bank directors and then spoke in front of more than 200 international decision makers . People seemed to agree . It should something happen .
And now , in the Philippines ? The residents were better prepared ? The balance is from bitter - because the answer is no. "We had to train our people better," says Ebinezer Florano . The social scientist at the University of Manila criticized not only that the government now takes days to help those affected. One could also advance to better plan , he says. "People have not been well informed. " Although everyone has known this day that a strong typhoon was coming. "But the talk was also of a storm surge . Most people know what to do with this term . When the typhoon came with the tsunami , she thought suddenly , that would be a tsunami. "
Although an average of 19 typhoons a year to sweep the Philippines, the population was not adjusted to such a heavy storm that brings so violent floods with it . 800,000 people had indeed been brought to safety , journalists report . But the number of people affected now stands at more than ten times . According to information from the United Nations World Food Programme about 2.5 million people need urgent help . Maybe have a great deal of damage and many deaths can be avoided.
The death of many could have been avoided
Easy it would have been better to prepare it says Florano . Then people would have been not so much surprised , the current chaos might be smaller. Many people died because they did the wrong thing out of ignorance. So many are running on the run from the gusts of wind sweeping everything in the basement of sports halls. When the water came , they were drowned there. " When I compare my country with others, we do not cut particularly well ," said Florano .
The researchers compared the situation in Manila shortly after Typhoon Haiyan with the situation in the first days after two major natural disasters in Japan. His analysis : " There, things just work . " Two and a half years ago Florano had traveled to the Tohoku region, which was severely damaged by the earthquake and the resulting tsunami triggered in 2011. 16 years previously he had studied in the region of Kobe in western Japan , the consequences of an earthquake in 1995 , by 4500 people were killed .
" In both cases, the Japanese went very quietly to the disaster. People knew how they had to behave ," says Florano . " Even under great anxiety remained the social order , individuals took back for the good of the group . " His compatriots go sometimes from these characteristic , he says.
Wanted to learn to be better prepared for these disasters , develop early warning systems and operate better Coastal protection . How that would go , you should know that in Asia. It was simply a little . And now they are back , the images of destruction.
" From the global experience of the past years, we have to take as much as possible," warned even a year ago Mahmoud Mohieldin at a conference in 2011 severely affected by earthquake and tsunami Sendai. The Egyptian politician is one of the World Bank directors and then spoke in front of more than 200 international decision makers . People seemed to agree . It should something happen .
And now , in the Philippines ? The residents were better prepared ? The balance is from bitter - because the answer is no. "We had to train our people better," says Ebinezer Florano . The social scientist at the University of Manila criticized not only that the government now takes days to help those affected. One could also advance to better plan , he says. "People have not been well informed. " Although everyone has known this day that a strong typhoon was coming. "But the talk was also of a storm surge . Most people know what to do with this term . When the typhoon came with the tsunami , she thought suddenly , that would be a tsunami. "
Although an average of 19 typhoons a year to sweep the Philippines, the population was not adjusted to such a heavy storm that brings so violent floods with it . 800,000 people had indeed been brought to safety , journalists report . But the number of people affected now stands at more than ten times . According to information from the United Nations World Food Programme about 2.5 million people need urgent help . Maybe have a great deal of damage and many deaths can be avoided.
The death of many could have been avoided
Easy it would have been better to prepare it says Florano . Then people would have been not so much surprised , the current chaos might be smaller. Many people died because they did the wrong thing out of ignorance. So many are running on the run from the gusts of wind sweeping everything in the basement of sports halls. When the water came , they were drowned there. " When I compare my country with others, we do not cut particularly well ," said Florano .
The researchers compared the situation in Manila shortly after Typhoon Haiyan with the situation in the first days after two major natural disasters in Japan. His analysis : " There, things just work . " Two and a half years ago Florano had traveled to the Tohoku region, which was severely damaged by the earthquake and the resulting tsunami triggered in 2011. 16 years previously he had studied in the region of Kobe in western Japan , the consequences of an earthquake in 1995 , by 4500 people were killed .
" In both cases, the Japanese went very quietly to the disaster. People knew how they had to behave ," says Florano . " Even under great anxiety remained the social order , individuals took back for the good of the group . " His compatriots go sometimes from these characteristic , he says.
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