Just consider the Philippines after this event to be in serious dires straights. Yes, they will survive the majority, but its something like falling down. The pain is felt not then and there but after the next few days. They will rejoice upon being alive, but when they come out and look around, BAM! It's not like they don't experience typhoons ever, they get more typhoons per year than you can count on two hands. It's just that whenever you have 300 MPH winds and gusting above that, its impossible to assume there will be heavy damage. More like A DISASTER MULTIPLIED like you never seen before. Consider the average person in Philippines lives in shacks. Yes, SHACKS. No way those shacks can sustain that kind of punishment. I suspect you will see the U.S. Army, some major charity drives, much like the TSUNAMI that hit the Indian Ocean a few years back all over the Philippines after this one. Just plain bad news for anything in its path. This is the biggest recorded wind speeds in a Typhoon ever, and all born and bred in TYPHOON ALLEY. The Devil himself made it to the Philippines this November.