Bianca Ruba | Faith and Opinion Editor
On the 17th of October 2015, powerful Typhoon Koppu made landfall in the Philippines with rain and winds of more than 250 km/h (155 mph). Following this event, death tolls have risen and several hundred people were declared to be missing with thousands forced to flee their homes as the vast weather system toppled trees and power lines, triggering floods and landslides.Flights were cancelled and thousands of people living in coastal areas have been moved to safer ground.
With the typhoon moving slowly, heavy rain fell in the same areas for several days. Though Typhoon Koppu has since weakened officials fear further flooding. It has been the strongest typhoon to hit the disaster-weary country this year since Super Typhoon Haiyan and due to this, President Benigno Aquino made a televised warning; the first time he had done so since the fatal natural disaster of 2013.
The Philippines battles an average of 20 typhoons a year, many of them deadly and speaking as a Filipino myself, these disasters evidently can ruin homes, agriculture and ways of life as in most cases, people get little or no aid from the local authorities to restart what they have lost.
