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Reflection Paper ON THE Occurrence OF Typhoon “ Odette”

National training service program (nstp 110), western visayas college of science and technology.

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got these photos from google Christmas may be a merry season but for most Filipinos in the Visayas region, this is not the case.

These last few months had been difficult for me. We don't have any electricity. Our drinking water is in short supply. The internet had been down for a month, and it was still unstable as the week came to a close. Odette, a super typhoon, wreaked havoc like we'd never seen before. Many houses had their roofs and walls destroyed. Some of them fell to the ground. Some electric posts were cut in half, while others were cut into pieces. We were in a state of survival.

We were hit by the typhoon a week before Christmas. I expected the holidays to bring joy and relaxation, but it was the opposite. Typhoon Odette overtook us and caught us of guard. Perhaps we were too relaxed and overestimated it. The first 24 hours were difficult. We saw a lot of debris and downed trees. I was trapped in our house for a day because a ten-year- old tree fell in our gate. Fortunately, we had food and water to keep us going. However, my experience with the typhoon's aftermath proved to be far more difficult than the storm itself.

As previously stated, our food and water supply can only last one day. Food was not an issue because stores were open. However, drinking water appears to have vanished. Water stations are unable to operate their purification machines in the absence of electricity. Some people had generators, but gasoline was rationed (lines takes more than 3 hours before we can get the fuel). Aside from that, roads were not immediately cleared. Because of fallen trees and electrical poles, we had to take some alternate routes.

People are still rebuilding their homes a month after the storm hit. Electricity is gradually being restored. The internet is a little more stable. Things are gradually improving, in my opinion. Looking back 3 days after the typhoon, things weren't looking good. The government was either absent or appeared to be less visible. Despite that, we became resilient and tried to bounce back from this pitfall.

With typhoon Odette, it opened our mind to re-evaluate our homes, city and its designs. We must have urban interventions that are more resilient and adaptable to our emerging needs. We can play in improving the values of our local communities towards urbanism and resiliency. As we are rebuilding and resting from our unlucky fate, we shift our mindset and prepare our homes to be able to survive even typhoon Odette runs wild once again (hopefully not).

Resilience design thinking allows us to break free from fragile design and necessitates a mental shift. We pay less time for the ideal scenarios and spend more time thinking about the extremes. In that way, we can address what we missed out before. We need resilience design thinking for our cities.

Changing our cultural mindset is central to designing for resilience. When we change our culture, we must apply these ideas across design disciplines and beyond, incorporating them into everything from architecture to urban policies.