6 Q18: You mentioned you are working at the DRRM office of your municipality. What did you do, if any, immediately after the super typhoon hit your place? A18: Around 12:00 in the afternoon of the same day, it was relatively okay to walk outside. At that time, my initial response was I had to go to the operation center for me to see and assess the whole scenario of what happened before I could go to the actual operation. I have to check if all the responders were there. To be honest, we were also struggling at that time especially on what to do. Our immersion provided by the Climate Change Commission through the Climate Change Action Plan quite helped us. The experience gave us added knowledge on vulnerability and assessment. What was odd was that the creation of our office went first before the creation of the Provincial DRRM in Cebu. It was hard at that time since the communities were not yet empowered to take action and they did not know what to do. The science-based learning on climate change was not easily grasped. Good thing the climate projection really helped the community to quite prepare because we used the worst case scenario on climate risks and the vulnerability assessment in barangays. The people were, at least, given warning. Also, at that time, I had the impression that member of MDRRMC are not fully-oriented on their respective duties. The importance of disaster risk reduction and management were only appreciated right after super typhoon Haiyan hit the country. In fact, some municipal councils did not understand the importance of DRRM offices. Q19: Do you have data or statistics with you that would show specific impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, like number of casualties, injuries sustained, extent of damage to infrastructures and public and private properties, loss of livelihood, etcetera? If yes, could you please walk us through those data? A19: As far as San Francisco, we estimated the total damage amounted to Php163,750,390.00 (source: San Francisco Rehabilitation Plan). This comprises social sector, infrastructure, livelihood, and tourism. We had 6,760 families affected, which is equivalent to 27,772 individuals. On Damage Assessment Result for Infrastructures, the cost was PhP28,495,000.00, which includes schools and day care centers. agricultural damage amounting to PhP14,164,390, fisheries at PhP2,320,000.00, livestock at PhP151,500.00, tourism at PhP1,800,000.00. There were 875 totally damaged and 6,540 partially damaged houses in the entire municipality as assessed by San Francisco Yolanda Special Task Force. Q20: I have learned that after your super typhoon Haiyan experience, your community has zero casualty. How were you able to achieve this?