Typhoon ONDOY - A Lesson for Everyone…
When typhoon Ondoy visited Manila on September 26 everyone thought that it was just a typical storm that will just come and go.
But it leaves us with tremendous lessons to learn especially our preparedness program. Whether our government agrees or not evidence is already painted on the wall. No excuses please… but rather challenge it!
And I’m sure that if you are a resident of Metro Manila and suburbs you had your experience to share and a lesson to treasure for yourself.
In my case… when going home, from the tricycle station to our house is a merely 10 minutes ride. Last Saturday it took me almost 2 hours to reach my place you can imagine how hard to manage the flooded roads.
Although there was a rescue team from PNP-NCRPO, one truck plying the flooded place is not enough for a specific direction.
And to satisfy my flooded day, in my thinking with an almost a hip high flood, tricycle service would be charging higher fares… I was amazed by the driver when I asked him how much… he just asked for the usual fare and it’s really satisfying for still there are people who don’t take advantage of the situation.
Now, most political hopefuls will make themselves visible, busy and with their best foot forward will do their thrust.
It’s everyone’s hope that they do it without gimmickry just plain move to help the victims, the needy from the heart.
I’m just sharing what I felt and what I’ve seen, share your thing so that all of us, Everyone will profit from it.
Once again this is Feron saying bye-bye for now…
God Bless all of us…
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October 24th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
i’m sorry to hear that..
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feron reply on October 30, 2009 2:21 pm:
Thanks for the visit, hope to see you often!
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October 30th, 2009 at 4:10 am
Feron, it’s amazing what mother nature can do. We also learned lots of lessons from Hurricane Katrina which hit Biloxi and New Orleans. We were not prepared at all and are still struggling to get back to normal even years afterwards.
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feron reply on October 30, 2009 2:24 pm:
Well we have to admit it that whatever untoward that’s happening it’s because of our fault. Let’s enjoy what is in store for us and not to change what God has given us. See you!
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November 9th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
We were one of those affected by the Typhoon since we live in the hardest hit city, Marikina. I think there are a lot of lessons to learn from it: that we should take care of the environment, take care of each other as brothers and sisters, and live modestly because all those material things can be easily wiped out in just a few minutes when mother nature gets back on us. Save, save, save! Our emergency fund helped a lot in getting us across after that disaster. If we hadn’t saved at all, we would have ended up begging for financial help. And let’s not forget to strengthen our relationship with God.We never know when our “time” will come.
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