We cannot deny the fact that when
nature’s turn, it is very hard to predict but as what Philippines is experiencing that we
always embrace more than 20 typhoons a year and yet, we still remain unprepared.
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A few weeks ago, East Coast was
hit by the phenomenal Super Storm Sandy and yet their death toll is far from
what you expect when there comes a strong typhoon most especially if you
compare it in our state. What’s the magic? Their population is a bit larger
than us and hitherto we still have this same devastation after a strong storm.
In the Editorial Section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (pardon me because I
can’t remember who said the statement) one said that we Filipinos are used to
say that “it’s just a storm, we are Filipinos”. The mentality of being “used to
it” seems to be irrelevant now. Filipinos has a strong personality, very
courageous, knows how to handle situations and devastation but the mindset of
each individual has already been clogged. For instance, Typhoon Ondoy killed
thousands of innocent people living a trace of tragedy all over the state and
in each emotion of every individual but a few months has passed; another
typhoon hit the state and the same catastrophe was experienced. When will we
learn?
The government never failed to
warn the citizens pertaining to this topic, over and over again and we haven’t
still change. The saddest part is, we blame them for the matter. We just don’t
simply blame and pin point names because in the first place we have to cooperate
nevertheless we just ignore what they say. Typhoon Sendong shocked Cagayan de
Oro and Iligan when it washed away all of its belongings including lives and
properties living only muddy and wrecked surfaces. This cataclysm denotes how
unwary we are. I know that we didn’t expect such tragedy and we even can’t
imagine that higher places were also devastated. Time is changing and storms
are getting stronger. We have to be prepared. We have to learn from the past
because the worst is yet to come.
