Shocking Haiyan

It is shocking to hear that the super typhoon Haiyan had  destroyed entire towns across the Philippines and  believed to have killed more than 10,000 people. Certainly,  as authorities put, it is that  country's deadliest natural disaster.

Phillippines seems to be a most vulnerable island nation in the world which is regularly battered by Cyclones. The people there, though accustomed to such furies of nature, cannot help but to suffer the heavy loss of life and property regularly.   Let us hope all Nations come forward to lend a helping hand to the Philippines. One wonders why there were no meteorological warnings to the people. The underground places could have, of course, saved many lives from typhoon, but no such escape has been reported.

When a  similar catastrophe was experienced recently in India's east coast and south central areas, the loss of lives were minimal with near perfect advance warnings. Thousands of lives of poor fishermen in coastal areas were saved by shifting them to safe camps. Perhaps the small size of the island country prevents an escape from fast running typhoon.  It hoped that Philippines would soon recover from the trauma caused by Haiyan.  

K A Solaman 
The Deccan Chronicle, Kerala, published on 12-11-2013