We have reached a tipping point here on earth. For example, life in the Philippines (in general) might not be viable unless people are rich enough to get enough information to fly out on a moment's notice. And this is sure to get worse with coming weather in the years to come. And this might also be true of other areas of the Pacific that get regularly hit by Typhoons and Cyclones depending upon that area.
The combination of rising seas combined with warmer oceans and air over the Pacific Ocean is changing the dynamics of life in the Pacific and to a lesser degree life in places like Viet Nam, Thailand etc.
When you can have even one storm like Typhoon Haiyan you can also have more. So, A Typhoon Haiyan might now be a yearly or once every few years type of storm people will see in the Philippines and in Viet Nam and Thailand and in the Western Pacific in general.
And because of that either people build higher and higher into the highest elevations on those islands and build with more cement and re-bar and less wood and aluminum corrugated roofing (which by the way cuts people like knives when it gets loose in over 100 mph winds) or life may become impossible long term for people in western pacific Islands like the Philippines to the point where living there like they are now might be a death sentence if they can't afford a better cement structure at a higher altitude or flying to another place the storm isn't going to hit when they get another one like this. And it is fairly inevitable (the way things presently are) that more like this will come in the next few years, just like there will be more and bigger "Hurricane Sandys" and "Hurricane Katrinas" here in the U.S. likely within the next 5 or 10 years.
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