Quote Originally Posted by lastlid View Post
Kate McGeown of the BBC was just saying on the news here that the casualties would have been a lot worse if precautions hadn't been taken in the run-up to the arrival of the typhoon, on this occasion.
Yes ... ... I believe Consular officials in the Phils got in touch with certain UK weather forecasting *boffins as far back as November 24 ... and *they, in turn, had been able to "prophesy" this particular typhoon.