Shortly after the effects of the typhoon ended on the island, work began to repair and rebuild the impacted bridges and roads.
However, the total number of fatalities directly associated with the effects of the typhoon remain disputed, and may range anywhere from 569 to 991, making Amy one of the deadliest typhoons to strike the island nation in recorded history.
Upon making landfall on south Samar on December 10, Hibok-Hibok erupted six times in rapid succession, worsening the effects of both the typhoon and the volcano.
Two years after Typhoon Haiyan swept through Eastern Visayas in the Philippines, local government officials in the affected areas are still dealing with the effects of the massive typhoon.
The typhoon-induced sea surface cooling effect led to a decrease in the equivalent potential temperature within the inner warm core of the typhoon at the 200 hPa level at 36 h (Figure 12a).
The effects of typhoon Imbudo and typhoon Dujuan on the buildings are presented in detail.
The work, carried out under the auspices of the UN International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction programme, was concerned with the effects of high typhoon wind speeds in urban areas in the Pacific Rim region of South East Asia (J.A. Wills, T.A. Wyatt, B.E. Lee, Warnings of high winds in densely populated areas. IDNDR Flagship Programme Report 4, Thos. Telford, London, 1998).
The combination of winds and other effects from the typhoon destroyed 114 houses, severely damaged 154, and caused minor damage to 306; on the island, about 200 families were left homeless.
Mr Romualdez said: "No-one could have imagined the scale and could have predicted the destructive effect of the super-typhoon".
"Although it won't have the same effect of typhoon Morakot, this typhoon is still very well developed," Premier Mao Chi-kuo said Thursday, referring to a storm that killed 600 people in 2009.
As well as the seasonal heavy rain, the effects of Typhoon Nepartak had been felt in neighbouring provinces in the previous week.
