Philippine Flood

Our house is flooded only roof is keeping up here in Rizal, Philippines. As the typhoon crosses our province, me and my family fled to the hillside by the farm, we risk ourselves crossing a 150 meters farming land near the creek, the water is rushing sideways we choose to crossing it  than to die helpless in the subdivision. It was an extraordinary experience and I don’t want it to happen again to my family. My wife is pregnant but I still manage to calm her as we walk at the side of the farm. I organized our group by two’s so that when one can’t manage to get up the other one would help. We use our head not our heart, we tend not to cry or murmur our loss we just saves ourselves than rescuer save us.

This is a loud call to our countrymen to stop throwing garbage and stop polluting our waterways, stop cutting trees, stop mining the hills for minerals that money can buy. This is a matter of self responsibility to live by the right ways and in line with Mother Nature.

For our government please stop spending people’s money in non sense self- agenda. Disperse our money in proper way, put more money to stop global warming, produce more food, health, education and utilities such us boats, amphibian trucks, helicopters with real instrument for stormy weather. For your information our Defense has a little air logistics for all out rescue effort, we have many helicopters but only a few can deploy on stormy condition. Almost all can’t fly because they don’t have a good avionics system for stormy weather.  The ratio of air-logistics is 1 helicopter: 10,000 people and may be more. 1 boat is to 1000 people. It is very poor.  I was sadden because thousand of government money is spend to buy guns that enemy can acquired. I heard a story to one military person a master sergeant in the army that they killed an enemy in cotobato whose gun with a serial number and tag of the Philippine Army.

People are powerless because most of the government logistics is stuck on the road. All in all I can say that they do their best, our brave army, NGO’s, Rescuer, Volunteer and other people who involve their selves on effort to help us. We thank them very much but still I can say we have the people to help but we don’t have a proper tool to do it.

Communication is down on the day of the storm, clean water and food can’t be deliver because most of the government logistic is in line with the road (on the ARMY 6X6 truck), road are flooded 10X as the normal flooding, some looters are still roaming because most of the police are in line with rescue efforts, rich and poor alike still waiting on their rooftop to be save by the rescuer. The rescue effort is gone wild because of the yield of the area; it is almost 1 rescuer is to 100 people. It is a total disaster for urban area like Pasig City, Cainta, Angono, San Mateo, Markina City and many more.