Sujata Jena, SS.CC.

Typhoon Ompong (international name: Mangkhut) left such devastation in Baggao, Cagayan, where it made landfall early Saturday at peak winds.

It ripped through the Philippines’ main island of Luzon.Officials said 100 percent of the town’s crops and 30 percent of its structures were destroyed.

The storm packed winds of 185km/h (115mph).Four million people were in its path, and thousands were evacuated amid warnings of 6m (20ft) storm surges.

Many trees were uprooted and electric posts toppled and are blocking the roads. This makes the clearing operations really difficult.

Some 14 people have been killed in a massive storm which brought destruction to the northern Philippines, a presidential adviser says.

The typhoon recalls memories of the deadliest storm on record in the Philippines – Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 – which killed more than 7,000.

As an immediate response to the victims of Ompong Typhoon, the Social Service Department of Sacred Hearts Shrine Parish, Kamuning visited squatter areas of Quezon City. It distributed food groceries and cooked meal in Buracay (one of the squatter areas)

Sacred Hearts Shrine is run by the SVDs. The Parish has facilitates about 15 kinds of different ministries; Worship ministries and Social Service branch.

The Philippines is the most exposed country in the world to tropical storm. An average of eight to nine tropical cyclones make landfall in the Philippines each year.

While the U.S. East Coast prepared for Hurricane Florence to make landfall, super Typhoon Mangkhut cracked down in the Philippines

In recent time more storms, hurricanes and typhoons are forming across the world. Changes in temperature change the great patterns of wind that bring the monsoons in Asia and rain and snow around the world, making drought and unpredictable weather around the world more common.

In many countries neither the people nor the governments are prepared for these threats, either because they do not have the resources or because they have not planned ahead.

Our Earth is in our hands; either we have the wisdom to modify ongoing processes or we shall all perish. A return to Indigenous wisdom will help find solutions to environmental problems.