In 2012 Tropical Cyclone (TC) Evan offered a distressing reminder of Samoa s exposure to natural hazards. TC Evan came … growth of Samoa has been impacted in the past few years by two major disasters: the tsunami in 2009 and TC Evan in 2012 … rebounded to 2.2 percent in 2013/14 as the reconstruction program commenced (World Bank 2014). Samoa is expected to incur, on …