Typhoon Rai

Typhoon Rai
Typhoon Rai, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Odette, was the second costliest typhoon in
Philippine history behind Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Rai was a powerful rare tropical cyclone that struck the
Philippines in December 2021 and was the strongest storm of 2021.
The Visayas and Mindanao were not spared from typhoons, as Typhoon Odette made landfall in Bohol and
Surigao City. Cagayan de Oro City also suffered from typhoon Odette due to the overflowing of the rivers,
causing massive flash floods across the city.
Key Statistics:
- Category: Typhoon (JMA), Category 5 Hurricane (SSHWS)
- Highest wind speed: 260 km/h
- Total fatalities: 410
- Date: December 16, 2021 – December 22, 2021
- Damage: $1.02 billion (2021 USD); (Second-costliest in Philippine history)
- Affected areas: Philippines, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macao, Palau, Micronesia, Spratly Islands, Caroline
Islands
Timeline:
Dec. 16 at 1:30 p.m. local time on Siargao Island: The typhoon made landfall in the southeastern Philippines
Shortly after landfall with winds at 160 mph, it underwent an eyewall replacement cycle and decreased in
strength to a Category 4, but winds remained at 150 mph
Rai made several other landfalls at Category 3 and 4 intensities throughout the day as it moved through the
Philippines.
Dec. 17 at 3:10 p.m. local time, the typhoon made its ninth landfall in Roxas, Palawan, before moving into the
West Philippine Sea
Dec. 22: Rai re-intensified to a Category 5 near Vietnam but weakened again and dissipated near Hong Kong.
Rai strengthened from a Category 1 to 5 typhoon in just one day, making it difficult for people to prepare for
the arrival of the storm or to evacuate. The typhoon increased by 85 mph in just 24 hours. This rapid
intensification of storms is becoming more common due to climate change
Impacts:
36 million homes were damaged (992,000) or destroyed (368,000) compared to 1.1 million for Haiyan.
514 municipalities were affected.
These “towns and cities suffered destruction including power outages and damaged:
- Houses
- Roads
- Bridges
- Schools
- health clinics
- Water
- Sanitation systems
- More than 12,000 people remain displaced across the typhoon-affected areas more than three months
after Typhoon Rai’s landfall last 16 December 2021
- As of 27 April 2022, a total of 12 million people are affected across 11 regions

- A total of 2.1M houses have been damaged, out of which 406,000 were destroyed
- A total of $56.6 million has been mobilised by the international community to date to support Typhoon
Rai relief operations or 33.5 per cent of total funding requirements under the Humanitarian Needs and
Priorities (HNP) plan – which resulted in humanitarian agencies implementing over 11,000 multi-
sectoral interventions to support the government’s response. ( 27 Apr 2022)
- As of 8 July, DSWD reports that 907 families (or 3,351 individuals) are still displaced in Regions VI,
VII, VIII, MIMAROPA, and Caraga. Among them, 643 families (2,377 individuals) are in 81
evacuation centres (EC), and 264 families (974 individuals) are outside evacuation centres staying with
relatives or friends
- On 30 June, The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) approved the
rehabilitation and recovery plan for Typhoon Rai, outlining key priority programs, projects and
activities for funding under the National DRRM Fund and agency regular budgets up to the year 2025.
Food Security and Agriculture cluster partners have transitioned from response to early recovery
activities. A recovery response matrix was developed for the next 6 months to carry out cash for work,
in-kind distribution and training for livelihood support.
Track of the storm – maps and timescale
Response to the event

MNOs played a key role in the Philippines by restoring connectivity faster, supporting community needs better
and working with the government for a coordinated response
Globe
- redesigning retrofitting towers along the typhoon path
- fortifying essential sites
- deploying higher capacity gensets to address prolonged power outages.
This will help to reduce the impact of the future disaster on their infrastructure
For example, the Globe Service Command Center (GSCC) helps to continuously monitor conditions that can
rapidly escalate into emergencies or disasters and guides the company in its continuity plans for services and
business operations.
Typhoon Rai impacted Smart’s infrastructure, and the operator continues to work to restore connectivity. Smart
recognises that there is a need for deploying specialised quick response teams based in various network nerve
centres that must be adequately equipped and prepared to react after a disaster.
The typhoon exacerbated an already dire food security

and nutrition situation, underpinned by economic
downturn due to COVID-19 (Caraga’s Gross Regional
Domestic Products dropped by 7.2 per cent in 2020).
The Government of the Philippines led humanitarian

efforts in affected regions. It welcomed international
humanitarian assistance and invited the humanitarian
community to scale up collective efforts to save lives.
As one of the Philippine Government’s key partners in

emergencies, WFP was among the first to respond
following the onset of Typhoon Odette. WFP worked
in close partnership with government authorities and
communities to scale up food/cash assistance,
augment logistics support, and provide emergency
telecommunications services.
Conclusion
There are opportunities to coordinate better and expand the use of communications technologies for the
dissemination of warnings beyond mobile technologies, including print media, radio, TV broadcast, two-way
radio systems, and even analogue warning bells
There is a need to build capacity from governments and disaster response agencies to improve their skills to
effectively use the various platforms to disseminate warning information.
Additionally, Typhoon Rai again showed that support needs to be expanded for vulnerable sectors of society,
such as children and persons with disabilities, who are often further marginalised during disaster situations.
This can only be done through the coordinated efforts of multiple stakeholders. Operators understand that
effective disaster response is a collaboration of stakeholders from different sectors, supported by innovative
programs and efforts that will be essential and value-adding to recovering communities.

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- As of 27 April 2022, a total of 12 million people are affected across 11 regions

Track of the storm – maps and timescale

Response to the event

The typhoon exacerbated an already dire food security

The Government of the Philippines led humanitarian

As one of the Philippine Government’s key partners in

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