Article from Euro News.
With winds of 150 km/hour, Typhoon Utor hit the Philippines. On average, every year, there are about 20 typhoons that hit the Philippines. However, this typhoon was the most powerful of them. Dozens of people are missing. It has triggered floods and landslides, which has caused hundreds of homes to be smashed and also disrupted power and communication links. Crops like rice, corn and coconut, have also been badly damaged. The town that suffered the worse damaged was CAsiguran, a coastal town, 343 km northeast of Manila. The typhoon sent a landslide which blocked its only access road. Aurora governor Gerardo Noveras said, "About 90 percent of our agriculture was destroyed or damaged." The full extent of the damage was still unknown. The typhoon a little weaker than before, it moves out to the South China Sea, expected to hit 300 km southwest of Hong Kong.
Humans can't really control natural disasters, as far as preventing it from happening. However, people can build sea walls or other barriers to prevent the damage from happening, to a certain degree. I think people should donate to causes that collect money for these projects, because sometimes, the places that need the projects built the most also need the money the most.
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