What is STORM SURGE?

- A storm surge is a sudden rise in sea level above normal, causing big waves as a tropical
cyclone approaches the coast.
- The highest water level rise or the peak of a storm surge usually happens on the same time
where there is a passage of a typhoon across a coastline
- A storm suger can swept the shoreline, and can extend several kilometers in land.

What TO DO?
- Make plans for evacuating
Bring with you only what is important and essential
- Listen to PAG-ASA Public Forecast
It is convenient to have aradio that runs on batteries
- Evacuate to higher ground
Find the nearest safe high elevation ground
- Stay off conduits of water
Stay off on steams or drainage as flashfloods can occur

Latest Data
Yolanda 2013

- Casualties
Dead - 2,646
Missing - 701
- Damages
Productive - 223,979,926.00
Infrastructure - 2,474,944,764.90
Social - 3,445,080,055.54
Cross sectorial - 360,777,657.05

Source [Data gathered from the last update by National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
Council (NDRRMC) as of April 17, 2014.]