Have you seen this video in youtube?
Our power was only restored yesterday afternoon so I only saw the magnitude of typhoon Ondoy yesterday. We were even enjoying our bonding time with our daughter, we were playing shadow puppets with her Saturday evening, and we did not even realize that a lot of our kababayans are in deep danger already.
They say that Typhoon Ondoy is the same as Hurricane Katrina that cause great damages to lives and property in the US. But according to Pag-asa, Hurricane Katrina is no match to typhoon Ondoy as it dumped a total of 455 millimeters of rain in Quezon City alone in 24 hours, compared to the 250 millimeters of rain of Hurricane Katrina. No wonder areas that are not affected by flood before, suddenly experienced knee deep or waist deep flood.
I was watching the news yesterday and there are already more than 70 people who died because of the typhoon (I hope they have return of premium life insurance so at least their families are covered).
I remember the last time I experienced the same intensity of typhoon was a few years ago, with Typhoon Milenyo. Milenyo just passed Manila for a few hours but it caused terrible amount of damages. After watching the effects of Typhoon Ondoy, I can’t help but feel scared as we can really see the effects of Global Warming.
Let us pray that all of us will be safe and let us all pray for all the victims of typhoon Ondoy.
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Re: Marikina Flood (typhoon Undoy) 26 Sept. 2009,
death toll in Provident Village alone:
Official( according to MCF)= 16 dead
unofficial = 58 dead
A SENATE INVESTIGATION IS IN ORDER!!!
The recent flood is the very unfortunate result of both natural and man made calamities. The release of excess dam waters was done without thinking of the consequences. it is both a criminal and insane act.
"The Angat Lake created by the Angat dam is the main potable water supply source of the Metro Manila Area. However this water when in over abundance, due to very heavy rainfall, is also the cause of widespread flooding, deaths, and accompanying misery affecting not only the provinces of Bulacan and Pampanga but also the Metro Manila Area. This happens everytime the dam water reaches its maximum height and the spilled water races down through the gullies and streams to the east of the dam and this rampaging water joins the water of the Marikina river system multiplying the floodwater volume of the Marikina River system thereby causing rapid increase in the volume of floodwater in the Marikina Valley. This happens everytime very heavy rains overfills the Angat water reservoir. The solution to this problem is the construction of water diversion/power generation tunnels to divert excess water towards the east emptying into the Pacific Ocean. It will also generate power. It is not enough that the excess water is emptied into the heavily populated areas, i.e, Bulacan, Pampanga area,Marikina Valley, as it definitely will cause multiple death and destruction downstream. Diverting the excess water to the east will save so many lives as the east side is relatively sparsely populated and at the same time generate power for electricity. The Government of the Republic of the Philippines must consider this as a permanent solution to the recurring problem of flooding in the central Luzon area and Metro Manila."
I'm sorry for encroaching into your space but I do not know where to start. Please think about the opinion I expressed above. You may freely share this thought with your friends, hoping that someday, the people criminally responsible for the release of Angat dam water, on the morning of 26 September 2009,shall face the bar of justice. An in-depth study and analysis of google maps and wikimapia maps will prove my point. Better still, a short helicopter trip tracing the path of the floodwaters will verify this matter. The evidence left by the rampaging flood water will trace it back to its source and is difficult, impossible to erase.
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