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Floods due to typhoon Ondoy(?)

Monday, 28 September 2009 20:02 Benjie Zamora
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First of all, I would like to extend my deepest sympathy to the ones who are mostly affected by the floods caused by the heavy downpour of Typhoon Ondoy. I know how it feels to lose a family member in an untimely fashion. I also know how it feels and it becomes easy that we start to blame others because of our misfortunes.

I am not perfect and I always take a good look at myself before I write a blog or a comment. But reports such as http://abs-cbnnews.com/nation/09/28/09/govt-hit-over-aid-delay-after-storm-kills-140, http://blogs.gmanews.tv/ellen-tordesillas/archives/44-Waterworld.html are really disheartening. How many time s have we heard that "Hindi ito ang panahon para magsisisihan at imbis eh magtulungan muna tayo". Also, that the amount of rainfall that this thypoon has brought us is comparable to Katrina and even a technologically-advanced country like the US cannot have been well prepared for the said disaster.

But now the tragedy has past (Or is it? As of this writing, two more thypoons are said to be on its way to the Philippine Area of Responsibility), who must we blame? Even Bayani Fernando wants to take it (and kudos to you Sir). I believe that our environment-insensitive practices must be blamed. Climate change is a global phenomenon and the said tragedy is just the tip of the iceberg. We must also blame residential zoning and the citizens who continue to flock Metro Manila and hence living in the slopes of Sierra Madre mountains (Our problem is we live where we should never have lived," he said. Manila, which like most of the country lies on the Pacific typhoon belt, is bisected by the Pasig and Marikina rivers whose waters connect Manila Bay to the west with a huge lake, Laguna de Bay, to the east. Some areas of the city lie below sea level, sit on silt and rely on pumps to keep the water out, while the eastern district of Marikina, ground zero of the disaster, is a valley surrounded by the Sierra Madre mountain range.)

I agree with what some has suggested, even Anthony Taberna's Punto por Punto is right about this (Sept 28 edition, cannot find link though in abs-cbn's portal). I think that this is God's way of reminding us that He is still there, that maybe on our busy daily lives we tend to forget what we are really intended for...

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