The European channel ARTE TV featured a video revisiting the city of Tacloban 10 years after it was devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan. They interviewed people who witnessed the event and returned to areas that had once been inundated by the super typhoon.
The efforts to rebuild areas and the challenges to reconstruction are shown, with efforts still ongoing a decade afterwards. Many citizens are unhappy with the pace of reconstruction, with little apparent progress even 10 years later. The flagship project of the reconstruction, a 44-kilometer and 4-meters-high dike designed to provide flood protection, is not yet completed. Despite the prohibition of building houses within 40 meters of the coast, people have returned to the coastline due to their reliance on it for their livelihoods.
The UP Resilience Institute was also interviewed for the video, highlighting the work of the UP NOAH Center, which precisely maps areas that are most at risk. Dr. Mahar Lagmay mentioned that Super Typhoons such as Haiyan, which used to occur once every 100 years, will now happen every 15 or 20 years. In response to these phenomena, communities must be reorganized using tools such as maps that are not based on past storms but on what future storms might bring.
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