year in, year out -- floods

**monkey_wrench** · June 25th, 2011 11:42 AM

it's so frustrating how we continue to suffer floods every year. we're in a tropical country that experiences typhoons and monsoons -- but nothing is being done about it. palagi na lang left to chance na "sana hindi bumaha". sigh.

the japanese continuously try to make their buildings earthquake proof, the chinese made the 3 gorges damn to control their river. for us filipinos -- palagi na lang bahala na. and it's not as if the solution is hard. it stares us in the face -- control garbage, illegal settlers, mindless and irresponsible construction. pero wala. bahala na lang palagi.

sometimes talaga i really feel na wala tayo pag-asa as a people. and no, it's not just our inept government. it's our ineptness as a people.

**ghosthunter** · June 25th, 2011 11:54 AM

You are not alone in that feeling.

**jappy** · June 25th, 2011 12:20 PM

6months a year lang naman naman daw pwede may baha.
so safe na yung remaining 6months.
hehehe.
pero on a serious note, matagal na priority dapat ng government ito, atleast kahit within the metro muna.
dito kasi, pag konting ulan lang, baha na agad.

**kevin3000** · June 25th, 2011 12:32 PM

buti sana kung baha lang... yung mga daan parang moon na..grabe tinitipid kasi yung pag gawa tapos yung half nung budget kay mayor,brgy captain etc....

**jansky** · June 25th, 2011 12:57 PM

talking about
- illegal settlers : ahh.. when government act, andyan ang Comission on Human rights shielding again the settlers
- control garbage: *peoples fault, walang displina tapon dito tapon don , most likley mga illegal settlers
-mindless and irresponsible construction: oopss. let do business under the table ... again illegal settlers

bottom line is.. pag sinaktan ang squatters andyan ang Human rights comission..

**Monseratto** · June 25th, 2011 01:08 PM

Wala naman talagang flood free city. Yung goverment can only do so little, especially being poor and all those legal BS. Tignan mo lang sa Singapore... bumabaha pa rin.

**RustyXIII** · June 25th, 2011 01:28 PM

We'd be long gone before we have something remotely similar to Malaysia's SMART Tunnel. Sick man of Asia? More like good-as-dead man of Asia...

**regaia** · June 25th, 2011 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by kevin3000

buti sana kung baha lang... yung mga daan parang moon na..grabe tinitipid kasi yung pag gawa tapos yung half nung budget kay mayor,brgy captain etc....

I agree! just today kitang kita ung mga walang kuwentang daan! Grabe umulan lang tanggal agad ung aspalto!

Para hindi OT: The Metro being overcrowded is probably one of the reasons for that (sa sobrang daming tao, wala na pupuntahan ang tubig hehehe). There's just so many factors at work to produce the result - which goes to show just how bad our country is!

**uls** · June 25th, 2011 02:00 PM

there will be more natural disasters globally

here's what analysts at insurance companies are looking at

http://www.soa.org/files/pdf/news-20...ubble-risk.pdf

meron ba risk managers govt natin?

or bahala-na-pag-nangyari-na managers?

**junerski** · June 25th, 2011 02:31 PM

may geographical factor din kasi na mahirap solusyonan... most of NCR is below sea-level... so nagiging catch basin talaga.

on a lighter note, resilient pa rin tayong mga pinoy, nasa pacific ring of fire na tayo with all the calamities attributed to it may it be earthquakes,tsunami,typhoons.