They have invested in a low-tech, early warning system with community shelters hardened to resist storm surges.
They went from door to door taking the weak to the Buddhist monastery whose building was strong enough to resist the storm".
Like a small group of others, he stayed, living at home without services -- a person resisting a storm -- during a week of chaos, uncertainty and then deadly calm.
Widely blamed for the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, Mr. Brown is something of a model for how permanent punch lines are made (resist "perfect storm" metaphor).
In response to the 1953 floods, which killed more than 1,800 people, the state laid down strict rules, ordering that flood defenses be made strong enough to resist a storm so severe that, according to computer projections, it would occur only once every 10,000 years.
Tacloban knows it has to build back better to resist future storms, and part of that strategy involves an embargo on building near the seafront.
Earlier this week, Clint Van Zandt, a former chief hostage negotiator for the FBI, told VICE News that he believes authorities should exercise patience and resist the temptation to storm the refuge.
But while frustrated officials and locals are eager for the spectacle in Harney County to end, Clint Van Zandt, a former chief hostage negotiator for the FBI, told VICE News that authorities should exercise patience and resist the temptation to storm the refuge.
In Caria, Halicarnassus resisted and was stormed, but Ada, the widow and sister of the satrap Idrieus, adopted Alexander as her son and, after expelling her brother Pixodarus, Alexander restored her to her satrapy.
The conquistadors were hard pressed but they managed to resist and counterattack, storming the main Inca stronghold at Sacsayhuaman.
