China cancels schools and flights as it braces for Super Typhoon Ragasa
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Taiwan's disaster response failed catastrophically when authorities ignored their own October overflow predictions and provided inadequate evacuation warnings to residents. The barrier lake had been a known threat for weeks, yet officials chose to "monitor the situation" rather than take decisive action to prevent the dam collapse. This bureaucratic negligence directly contributed to 14 deaths and over 150 missing persons who could have been saved with proper emergency protocols.
China's massive evacuation of 1.9 million people and deployment of 38,000 firefighters demonstrates exactly how disaster preparedness should work when facing extreme weather events. The coordinated response across multiple provinces, combined with Hong Kong's world-class $3.8 billion drainage infrastructure, shows that proper investment in climate resilience saves lives and minimizes economic damage from increasingly powerful storms.
There is a 62% chance that New York City will experience a hurricane before 2030, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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