Weather TALK [forecasts, etc]

[vinj]

Nasaan na rin ang mga maka-BAYAN na militante aktibista? Baka magprotest pa sila sa mga dadating na US aid imbes na magbigay tulong.

[badkuk]

i wonder if that pawnshop got robbed. Siguro kahit bakbakin yung pader para makuha yung safe, wala ring makapigil

[shadow]

dapat yun mga BDO branches inuna nila... parang sari-sari stores sa dami ng branches

[Monseratto]

Mga kuripot....

http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/...ctims/?hp&_r=0

November 11, 2013, 6:15 am 79 Comments
China Offers Relatively Modest Aid for Typhoon Victims
By JANE PERLEZ

As international aid pours into the Philippines for victims of Typhoon Haiyan, China has offered $100,000 in cash, a figure that seems modest compared with its other recent contributions for humanitarian relief abroad.

Qin Gang, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told reporters on Monday that China would send that amount to help the Philippines recover from a disaster that has left as many as 10,000 people dead. Asked if the donation was scaled according to the current chill in relations between China and the Philippines, Mr. Qin declined to answer.

In September, China said it would give a $1.5 million cash grant to Pakistan, its close friend, after an earthquake killed an estimated 500 people in the province of Baluchistan.

After a tropical storm hit the Philippines in 2011, China pledged $1 million in humanitarian aid. That was before relations between the two countries soured over disputed islands and reefs in the South China Sea.

[Monseratto]

[111prez]

Mga kuripot....

http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/...ctims/?hp&_r=0

Take the $100K and use it to build Philippine structures on the West Philippine Sea.

After all, apektado din ito at kailangan i-rehabilitate

[crazy_boy]

Ugly Pinoy looter featured in a Japanese newspaper.

SHAME!

nakakahiya yan. saan naman niya gagamitin yung pang ground ng meat? kamay niya?

[NiCe2KnowU]

magpapadala na din daw ang china ng tulong :D

[cast_no_shadow]

Pede rin galing ibang province na hindi naman takaga victims, mga oportunista lang talaga. Ang pinoy masyado maabilidad kaso sa kagaguhan minsan ginagamit.

Yung branch nila esmi sa robinson tacloban nalimas laman ng atm including the vault nabuksan din daw.

Which makes me wonder how can an ordinary citizen open a bank vault.


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[shadow]

I think that's the best thing to do, kung meron naman relatives outside tacloban na pwedeng makituloy muna, umalis na muna ng tacloban mga tao

Mahirap lang magsalita eh pero I'm sure karamihan ng victims eh yun mga hinde nag relocate dahil sinasabi nila na either sanay na sila sa typhoons or takot manakawan, ngayon sinisisi naman sa slow relief operation and rescue.


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#retzing

[badkuk]

i'm still wondering how the convicts got out. Sabagay pag wala nang guwardya, anything can happen.

[vinj]

This article makes me sick

Tacloban mayor?s wife recounts ordeal | Inquirer News

Tacloban mayor’s wife recounts ordeal
By Leila B. Salaverria
Philippine Daily Inquirer
12:30 am | Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
733 27.3K 24.5K

Cristina Gonzales INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
Neither the pull of power nor the sheen of celebrity could protect anyone from the wrath of Supertyphoon “Yolanda.”
Officials of Tacloban City, which bore the brunt of the supertyphoon’s fury, were among those who escaped with only the shirts on their backs.
Having nothing else to wear, Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez had to don a pair of shorts—apparently among the items looted from a department store—which someone had given him, according to his wife, Tacloban Councilor Cristina Gonzales-Romualdez.
Cristina herself had to borrow underwear and shirts from friends.
But the most horrifying experience came at the height of Yolanda’s onslaught.
An angry wind
Cristina flew to Manila on Monday to help coordinate relief efforts, bring her children over, and also quell rumors about her supposed demise.
She spoke at a press briefing in Makati City, where relief goods were being packed for the typhoon victims.
The former actress recounted how her two daughters and their househelp clung to the beams on the ceiling of their guesthouse, where they had sought shelter, as the waters raged around them. The wind had blown off its roof.
“It was a strong wind … an angry wind,” she recalled, giving a high-pitched scream to imitate its power.
Psalm 91
Cristina’s husband was inspecting a nearby resort when the water came, forcing him and his aides to retreat to a ballroom and hang from the ceiling, as the sea tried to claim them, she said.
“We almost lost him,” she said.
On the morning Yolanda struck, Cristina and her daughters, aged 10 and 14, plus the household staff, left their home facing the Pacific Ocean to seek shelter in a guesthouse farther inland.
But such was the typhoon’s strength that the water went rushing in. Her children were afraid but she assured them they were not going to die.
“I was just praying. Praying and praying and praying with my kids,” she said.
She recited Psalm 91, a prayer for protection, and sang worship songs with her children.
‘Is this a movie?’
When the water receded, the family, including their dog, a German Shepherd, walked through the debris to reach downtown.
Cristina said she had only a few scratches and rolled up her pants to show a bright red gash down her leg.
But she still reeled from the experience. “Is this a dream? Is this a movie?” she remembered thinking.
Since then, she and her husband had been helping tend to the city’s shocked residents and doing what they could to restore some semblance of order.
“Everybody was a victim,” she said. “It’s not a normal typhoon where the (social welfare department) is here to provide help because they were also victims. So who was going to help?”
Driven to desperation
This was why she was saddened by reports claiming her husband could not be located in Yolanda’s aftermath. Publicizing their efforts and having their pictures taken while helping others were not on their minds, she said.
But she said she was very grateful for the help pouring in.
As for the looters, she said many were driven to desperation because they wanted to help their families.
“They just wanted to get food for their families and to survive,” she said.
She recalled that some of the people were sharing the loot with others, for example the clothes taken from stores.
Her husband’s aides were given short pants and her husband wore one pair because he had no other clothes with him.
Blame game
“Now is not the time to play the blame game. Rather, it’s time to unite and pick up the pieces. We have to bury our dead,” Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, a cousin of Mayor Romualdez, told reporters.
The congressman said he would not take issue with President Aquino’s remark that Tacloban officials did not seem to have been prepared.
According to the lawmaker, Aquino’s remarks were probably made before he was apprised of the actual situation.
“No one, not here or abroad, could prepare for this supertyphoon, this catastrophe of unprecedented proportions,” he said.
“Everyone did as much as was humanly possible to prepare … yet no one was spared,” he added.
House resolution
Cristina said that three days before Yolanda struck, local officials had evacuated people and warned them of possible storm surges.
She said officials chose evacuation centers that were sturdy but such was Yolanda’s strength that even the hardiest houses gave way.
“Even if that happened in Metro Manila, I’m sure the same thing would happen,” she said.
In a House resolution, Romualdez urged the President to place the entire country under a state of calamity. The resolution was coauthored by other representatives.
Romualdez said a presidential proclamation was needed to control the prices of basic necessities and prime commodities and allow the grant of noninterest loans to the victims.
He also said he would push for the creation of a commission to handle relief and assistance operations in areas battered by Yolanda.
Romualdez said he could understand the looters’ frustration since many were left with nothing but there was also a need to restore order.
This has not been easy because policemen and local officials were also victims of Yolanda.
Originally posted: 5:07 pm | Monday, November 11th, 2013

I dunnot but it seems very wrong that:
- She flew to the comforts of Imperial Manila after the storm when now is the time that she should be tending to her constituents and living up to her elected duties (supposedly to coordinate the packing of relief goods... WTF).
- Her mayor husband was inspecting a resort prior to the storm???

Buti pa sila Duterte, Gordon, Roxas, Gazmin, etc...

[jayteecie]

This article makes me sick

Tacloban mayor?s wife recounts ordeal | Inquirer News



I dunnot but it seems very wrong that:
- She flew to the comforts of Imperial Manila after the storm when now is the time that she should be tending to her constituents and living up to her elected duties (supposedly to coordinate the packing of relief goods... WTF).
- Her mayor husband was inspecting a resort prior to the storm???

Buti pa sila Duterte, Gordon, Roxas, Gazmin, etc...

While I respect your opinion, please give them a break. They already suffered tremendous ordeal. Notice how tears were flowing spontaneously down her cheeks while she was being interviewed? That my friend moved me coz it's something that can't be faked. If I'm right, she just wanted to bring their kids to safer place which any normal mother would do. Put yourself in her shoes, maybe you'll understand what she did. Me? I'd do the same.


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[vinj]

While I respect your opinion, please give them a break. They already suffered tremendous ordeal. Notice how tears were flowing spontaneously down her cheeks while she was being interviewed? That my friend moved me coz it's something that can't be faked. If I'm right, she just wanted to bring their kids to safer place which any normal mother would do. Put yourself in her shoes, maybe you'll understand what she did. Me? I'd do the same. Why don't we just do our part by helping instead?


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I respect your opinion as well. My reaction comes from the point of view that if a person is used to leading people, it's a hard feeling inside that part of the job is to be present amongst your people when they need you the most; it's a leadership function so to speak. If you were elected into a position with great responsibility and while your bayan is falling into chaos, you are away, that's very hard to set aside. Even Quezon and McArthur did not leave the Philippines to fight another day until the Japanese were knocking at their doorsteps. A lot of tsikoteers already have a feeling of guilt that we can be warm at our own homes, knowing what is going on out there and it is continuously heartbreaking to read what is going on.

But yes, we are all doing our part... In my case, i've already started with the people i can help directly

Anyway, back to regular programming.

[_Qwerty_]

sabi sa news.. pinalabas talaga kasi binaha yung prison.. kaso nung nasa ground na.. may mga nakatakas..

i'm still wondering how the convicts got out. Sabagay pag wala nang guwardya, anything can happen.

[cast_no_shadow]

I think that's the best thing to do, kung meron naman relatives outside tacloban na pwedeng makituloy muna, umalis na muna ng tacloban mga tao

Mahirap lang magsalita eh pero I'm sure karamihan ng victims eh yun mga hinde nag relocate dahil sinasabi nila na either sanay na sila sa typhoons or takot manakawan, ngayon sinisisi naman sa slow relief operation and rescue.


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#retzing

Sabi nga ng boss ko naka sanayan na kasi ng mga kababayan natin na binabagyo, government will issue a warning tapos babalewalain lang. Masyado kampante at matigas ang ulo not anticipating mala delubyo na scenario.




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[Ry_Tower]

The Japs could indeed teach us all a thing or 2 about discipline.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/op...stof.html?_r=0

Naalala ko tuloy yung sa Fukushima videos. Kakabilid sila.

[roninblade]

The Japs could indeed teach us all a thing or 2 about discipline.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/op...stof.html?_r=0

Naalala ko tuloy yung sa Fukushima videos. Kakabilid sila.

they were disciplined because they have great infrastructure and emergency response capabilities so they know they'll get taken care of by the government. walang ganun sentiment sa atin since it's obvious how pitiful our government's capabilities are.

[chua_riwap]

[cardict]

they were disciplined because they have great infrastructure and emergency response capabilities so they know they'll get taken care of by the government. walang ganun sentiment sa atin since it's obvious how pitiful our government's capabilities are.

Sir I think the Japanese are disciplined people at the very start of their civilization,their leaders adhere to the strictest code of discipline that a simple mistep in governance will lead to harakiri:peace: