ANTONIO CUBACUB
When Typhoon Ketsana (local name Ondoy) hit the Philippines in 2009, it left in its wake damage amounting to P11 billion and it paralyzed the country’s central business district. Four years later, Super Typhoon Haiyan (local: Yolanda) turned out to be one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, devastating portions of Southeast Asia, especially the Philippines. To this day, we’re still in the painstaking process of rebuilding and recovering from the P571.1 billion destruction and losses wrought by that Super Typhoon.