Typhoon Haiyan - 10,000 dead

jas72 said:
is it worse than the Tsunami from a few years back?

Poor people. :(
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The tsunami affected a much larger area and killed around 230,000 people. However the scenes from the Philippines are all too familiar, it wouldn't surprise me if the death toll rose further :(

Edit: just realised you might have been talking about the Japanese tsunami in 2011 rather than the Indian Ocean one in 2005. The Japanese tsunami killed over 15,000 people.
 
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Will Gill said:
mother nature can be so evil
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Hardly...don't anthropomorphise the weather! to denote it as evil would ascribe some form of intent, whereas it's just natural physical system.

And with the onset of climate change that we are noticing (Anthropological in origin or not) unfortunately we will likely be experiencing far more of these types of intense storms.
 
Freakbro said:
Hardly...don't anthropomorphise the weather! to denote it as evil would ascribe some form of intent, whereas it's just natural physical system.

And with the onset of climate change that we are noticing (Anthropological in origin or not) unfortunately we will likely be experiencing far more of these types of intense storms.
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Well come on... it's evil by our terms. It's just figurative speaking. No-one actually thinks the weather has a 'choice' about what it does.
 
Tragic. Most of my wife's family are in the Philippines, but thankfully none of them were injured. I'll be raising money for relief to the PH by running the Reading half marathon in March.
 
You could also argue the population explosion in the Philippines, alongside the population building in areas prone to extreme weather was evil...

**** happens unfortunately. The Philippines is prone to typhoons and the unfortunate part is the islands are heavily populated, with most people living in poorly built housing on the coasts.

Thousands of people and millions of animals killed, not to mention the human rubbish now strewn around the area, never to be picked up, is a massive shame.

I'm heading to Coron Island in a few weeks, also heavily hit... It will be interesting to see what it looks like after a few weeks.
 
panthro said:
Tragic. Most of my wife's family are in the Philippines, but thankfully none of them were injured. I'll be raising money for relief to the PH by running the Reading half marathon in March.
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Didn't know this was going on. Where do I sign up?

EDIT: Oh I get it, the RHM isn't just about this, but that's your chosen charity. Nice idea though. There's one in Richmond in March that I was thinking of.

Amp34 said:
You could also argue the population explosion in the Philippines, alongside the population building in areas prone to extreme weather was evil....
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Absolutely true.
 
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Lysander said:
Here's an interesting image of what thi look like if it hit Europe. As you can see, we'd all be screwed.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70944000/jpg/_70944952_typhoon_area_europe_976.jpg

Not that it ever could or would, but it gives you an idea.
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It wouldn't be as bad as the image suggests, only the centre of the storm is the real damaging part. You're only looking at a 20-40 mile swathe that would be heavily damaged, the rest would be winds lesser than the storm we had last week.

Still massively distructive I'm sure but as an example if it hit Ipswich, London and even Cambridge would just get some strong winds and flooding.
 
Amp34 said:
It wouldn't be as bad as the image suggests, only the centre of the storm is the real damaging part. You're only looking at a 20-40 mile swathe that would be heavily damaged, the rest would be winds lesser than the storm we had last week.

Still massively distructive I'm sure but as an example if it hit Ipswich, London and even Cambridge would just get some strong winds and flooding.
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Isn't the point that it would move through that area?
 
Obviously, which is why I said swathe... However the swathe f proper destruction would be about 20-40 miles wide at most, rather than the whole of western Europe covered by the cloud. Just putting it in perspective as only the bit round the eye does most of the damage and you'd be unlucky if it hit more than one or two cities.
 
Freakbro said:
Hardly...don't anthropomorphise the weather! to denote it as evil would ascribe some form of intent, whereas it's just natural physical system.

And with the onset of climate change that we are noticing (Anthropological in origin or not) unfortunately we will likely be experiencing far more of these types of intense storms.
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I don't buy the climate change theory for this type of weather freak storms have been happening for 100s of years with no apparent increase.

Say again poor people but can't expect to live long living in a house made of corrugated sheet metal wouldn't like to be there with that stuff flying around at 150 MPH. :(
 
jas72 said:
I don't buy the climate change theory for this type of weather freak storms have been happening for 100s of years with no apparent increase.
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Bloke on the radio this morning talking about this subject, I remember him saying that the extreme weather events were getting more intense rather than more frequent. There's definitely a link between higher sea temperatures and the intensity of storms.

jas72 said:
Say again poor people but can't expect to live long living in a house made of corrugated sheet metal wouldn't like to be there with that stuff flying around at 150 MPH. :(
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It's those who contributed the least towards man made climate change that suffer the most from it :(
 
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terrible event yet again. Mother Nature is a strong one!

Weird that the guy being interviewed is my old boss, lol!
 
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