This will happen again.
It doesn’t take a doomsayer to predict it. We broke the weather, meteorological patterns are shot, calamities of this nature will almost certainly recur. Much of Metro Manila is overbuilt, the ground is covered in cement, there’s no earth to suck up the water and the trees have been cut down. The drains are clogged with trash and plastic bags. Then something like typhoon Ondoy strikes and we wonder how it could’ve happened.
Let’s do what we can in the relief operations (You won’t have to go far—someone from your own office or school will need help), then plan for the next deluge. Or drought.
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September 28th, 2009 at 02:39
I’m afraid I’ll have to agree with you on this one, JZ. Something should now be done by the city’s urban planners to create more and better aqueducts to divert the flood waters. The matter of proper and immediate disaster response should also be addressed.
September 28th, 2009 at 05:40
Maybe those who haven’t cared to take the global warming issue seriously will do so now. And maybe this time around there will be less people throwing their rubbish in rivers and waterways after having those same things float in front of their faces as they walked through neck-high floodwater.
Hope you’re okay where you are. And your family, too.