My 3 Takes: Post Typhoon Ondoy

Yesterday will go down to history for being the worst flood to hit the country. PAGASA said typhoon Ondoy carried unusual amount of rainfall
equivalent to six months' average in just six hours. News showed houses and cars under six meters of flood water.

We were personally clueless because power outage started 1pm until Sunday afternoon. To keep the kids entertained, we played a lot of
imagination games. It's really challenging to keep toddlers entertained during brownouts.

Sunday newspapers didn't help because they carried mostly political stories. One headline summarized a list of celebrities willing to 'invest' in the candidacy of Noynoy Aquino. Uhm, they say nothing in this world is free. I wonder what payments they would require once Noynoy's in power? Really scary thoughts, I think!

Going back to the Ondoy calamity, to me it illustrates the following:

1. That we as humans are frail beings without capacity to defend ourselves. Without electricity, we cant even have decent meals. Against the strong winds, we cAn't stand. Against the mighty flood, we are defenseless. We are mere dust in the wind. All possessions we have can be swept easily by an hour's rainfall.

2. The unusual amount of rain is our own doing called global warming. Here in the Philippines the awareness about its effect isn't widespread but all points lead to it. Irregular rain, unusually warm weather and unexplained flooding. There are ways we can all help, StopGlobalWarming.org offers great tips.

3. There are not enough scientists in our weather agency because there has never been an accurate forecast of weather occurrence since I can recall. Maybe they have become nurses abroad?

Good news today
God bless the MRT people for lowering fare today P10 flat rate- since Metro Manila
and other 29 provinces are under state if calamity. Thank you for your
sensitivity and concern.