Alleba Politics

Allegedly, two typhoons hovered above the country but never hit us all along. However, most of Luzon still suffered the repercussions of a typhoon. As of yesterday, Pampanga, Pangasinan and San Miguel, Bulacan were declared in a “state of calamity”. There should be a warning signal for things like this even if there wasn’t an actual typhoon within the country. Let us not be idiots and slaves to our own rules. DUH! Although there wasn’t any typhoon or typhoon signals, there was obviously enough rain and wind coming our way to wreak havoc.

Moreover, something has to done as precaution against the yearly barrae of typhoons in Luzon and some parts of Visayas. Every year, usually during the same time of the year, typhoons come in, destroy homes, crops and even end a few lives but apparently, the government is not doing anything to safeguard life and property. Every year, people are evacuated, handed out a few relief goods and left to their own devices after the photo ops. Surely, something can be done to prevent the yearly destruction.

Needless to say, most of the flooding would have been avoided if the forest were not deforested and the street seweres were not clogged with litter.

The yearly and almost predictable destruction of life and property due to typhoons is very taxing. Not only on the victims, but also on the economy and on the regions of the country whose problems are pushed aside everytime a calamity of this sort arise. Surely, something can be done, a well-made, effective dam maybe, or actual working flood gates. Or there might be some other less expensive ways. But something has to be done.

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