Quote Originally Posted by greenlyt View Post
thats good, aminin na hindi prepared kesa sa nagkukunwari na kaya
i don't get it. not a single organisation can claim it is prepared enough for such a scenario. what can you expect from a tiny department in a 3rd world?
cooper et al have their fingers pointed at the wrong people who should have done more if not better.

for the past ten years international agencies are still struggling to apply principles developed from handling catastrophes (natural and manmade) into practice. most of them supposedly experts at these things, can only give accurate assessment of the situation, but most of the time fail to meet their primary humanitarian goal after landing on shore. also consider some of the 1st world countries took days before they respond after a devastation, and then after months and years of rehab the victims at ground zero still live in tents dependent on handouts and foreign aids.

look at what hurricanes sandy did to the easters and katrina to the southerns. the counties still struggled to cope with the aftermath even with the dep of homsec's preemptive system in place. while haiyan b*tch slaps the category 5 out of these two hurricanes, it chooses to landfall on the most geographically strewn islands surrounded entirely by the pacific.

events such as this occuring with increasing frequency in every part of the world, ten years of hardcore experience just won't cut it to have different orgs work together, seamlessly. probably it'll take more years and devastation until they finally institutionalise a single body to spearhead crisis management with the support of every agencies and gov't. i hope they get their act together before a highly populated city somewhere is shaken by a 9.2mag earthquake and a tsunami and a cat5 hurricane come hot on its heels.