8 December 2012
So just how bad was the debris flow at Barangay Andap during typhoon Bopha / Pablo ?
Posted by Dave Petley
.This bad – the village was in the middle of the valley (image from MindaNews):
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It is hard to imagine what this would have looked like in reality. The answer is something like this:
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This is the very cost of the failure of effective disaster risk reduction, and the continuing unwillingness to address climate change.