You wonder just how strong buildings have to be to stand up to that sort of wind - worse than many tornados but will be over a much larger area. Do Filipinos have storm shelters as in the mid-West? If not, the prospects are really bad
Originally Posted by: NMA
They tend to use schools and other public buildings to shelter in which are usually built with concrete walls and provide reaonable protection.
The poor people usually have houses built from sawali which is a woven material made from bamboo and roofed with nipa from a species of palm tree, These houses will blow/washaway but are relatively easy to rebuild.However they have to be rebuilt every few years anywaybecause termites eat them. But this storm looks a little different to the run of the mill typhoon that crossses the Philippines.
Nick
Originally Posted by: DEW