typhoon

Before that, strong typhoons hitting our area were rare.

Though we dodged this bullet, the above mentioned typhoons hit us head on.

Fortunately, this typhoon was mostly wind and not much rain.

Each of the above mentioned typhoons hit in December.

One of the methods used to measure the strength of a typhoon is the Dvorak scale which goes up to 8.

Many of the people here live in bamboo / wooden structures which stand no chance against a strong typhoon.

It neared the theoretical maximum strength of a typhoon.

The wind is bad, but in a typhoon, it's water which really ratchets up the number of casualties.

To put this in perspective, last year, another super typhoon, Pablo, killed close to 2000 I believe.

But I live in the Philippines and I have been in a high wind, light flooding typhoon and a low wind high flooding typhoon.

The Philippines regularly gets hit with 20 typhoons each year and the typhoon season isn't over.

A single typhoon or ohio class missile boat can carry up to about 200 total warheads.

Maybe not a great idea for a drought/famine caused dislocation, but maybe for a flood/typhoon destruction of housing event.

The year before that another devastating typhoon, Sendong, killed something like 1200.

I don't know how this area in India compares to the Philippines, but we get hit with an average of something like 20 typhoons every year.

I will mention that the locals here seem to have become accustom to the weather due to the ~20 typhoons/storms per year, and also seem to take it a bit lighter then they sometimes should.

Comparing winds speeds of two different typhoons isn't necessarily comparing the most destructive components.

If every <x> years a typhoon is going to come along and wipe out <y>% of your infrastructure putting the affected regions of the country back to square one yet again, coming up with a workable solution to that should be a super high priority.