Weather TALK [forecasts, etc]

[Retz]

cloudy rainy weather today in manila.

[Manilablock]

Mga NPA, nag aambush ng mga aid convoys. Dapat ipaalam ito sa mga Typhhon Yolanda victims para alam nila kung bakit mabagal ang pagdating ng mga relief goods.


Philippine aid convoy ambushed as troops quell looting

Mga NPA nga ba kaya ang mga un? Mas possible private army.

Ang mga NPA alam ko nagugutom din, hindi naman nila kaya ubusin ung dala ng convoy at kung sakali man na ang purpose nila ay harangan ung convoy para un mga taong nangangailangan ay mamatay sa gutom, it does not serve any purpose.

Pero kung private army yan, meron sila pagdadalhan ung relief goods, meron community na pupuntahan, na possible supporters ng ilang pulitiko. Just my wild imagination.....

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[badkuk]

dapat daw managot ang mga looters according to our honorable senators.

Ang magnanakaw...galit sa kapwa magnanakaw :D


There's been some criticism about government relief efforts, about how news teams have been able to reach the more remote areas, and why they could not. Some thoughts:

1. i'm willing to bet that private companies. media or otherwise, probably have better gear than our government. Remember the two C-130 planes that were deployed immediately after Yolanda? Those are our *only* two C-130s.

2. The news teams are typically small groups, no more than 10 probably. Smaller groups are easier to transport, provision, etc.

3. Speaking of provisions, i doubt if the news teams carried any significant amount of relief goods, if any.

4. Maybe we should enlist the news teams, or their gear at least, in the distribution of relief efforts? Para hindi lang sila puro balita. i think given the circumstances they can be forgiven for not practicing "professionalism" by not getting involved in the subject(s) they are reporting on.

[Retz]

anyone watching cnn? mali daw ung mga reports ni cooper.

[chua_riwap]

anyone watching cnn? mali daw ung mga reports ni cooper.

ano sabi ni coops?

[CVT]

Katakot naman itong ulan,- more than an hour nang malakas ang ulan dito sa may Taguig City area....

Just wondering if I indeed saw an Osprey took off from NAIA and headed south, a couple of days ago...



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[Monseratto]

Dapat mag handa ng tent cities with manageable sanitation, since shattered na yung mga lugar dun. Letting the people live in their "homes", or what's left of it is a breeding ground of disease like cholera.

]Disease fears as medics overwhelmed in Philippines after typhoon Haiyan
November 13, 2013
Lindsay Murdoch


Authorities fear outbreaks of diseases in areas devastated by super typhoon Haiyan, with the United Nations calling for more urgency in rescue operations that have been hampered by armed looters desperate for food.

Philippine president Benigno Aquino declared desperately needed help would arrive faster as he ordered troops into villages and towns to protect relief supplies.

But rescuers have been overwhelmed by the devastation wrought by last Friday's typhoon.

The death toll could be far worse than estimated so far as rescuers reach remote areas in the path of the storm that have been cut off from communications, including on Samar Island and the northern tip of Cebu, officials say.


The United Nations warned the toll is quickly rising from the estimate of 10,000 that Philippine authorities announced last weekend. An estimated 9.8 million people have been affected.

''We are certainly expecting the worst. As we get more and more access we find the tragedy of more and more people killed in this typhoon,'' said John Ging, a UN humanitarian official.

As a new tropical depression moved across the devastated region, bringing more *******ial rain, medicines have been depleted or looted from pharmacies.

''It's overwhelming,'' said Air Force captain Antonio Tamayo.

''We need more medicine. We cannot give anti-tetanus vaccine shots because we have none,'' he said.

Bodies remain uncollected and decomposing in many of the affected areas, prompting fears of outbreaks of diseases such as cholera, aid workers said.

Read more: Disease fears as medics overwhelmed in Philippines after typhoon Haiyan

[baludoy]

anyone watching cnn? mali daw ung mga reports ni cooper.

don't know kung mali pero parang may dagdag na dramatic flair. parepareho iyong footages na parang a day or two old na din

ot: we finally heard from our relatives in tacloban after days of silence. things are bad out there but at least the situation is slowly turning around

even our small farm and commercial space in northern samar was hit but damage was minimal considering the magnitude of the tyhoon. iyon nga lang ang kuryente wala pa din and my brother thinks its going to take several weeks for electrical power to be restored.

ang kailangan bantayan ngayon ang mga komunista at siguradong hihingi nanaman ng so-called revolutionary taxes (aka extortion) nila dahil baba iyong mga iyon galing sa pinagtataguan nila

Mga NPA nga ba kaya ang mga un? Mas possible private army.

in our experience, i'm betting it's those stupid motherfreakin' NPAs

[shadow]

UN already defended PH govt relief efforts considering the severity of the situation, saka tama yun post sa taas... Dami nagtatanong bakit mga news people nakapasok eh ilan lang sila, paano mo I compare sa kung meron Dapsang tons of relief goods..hinde naman pwede buhating lang mga yun


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[frenchtower]

How do you stop politicizing a dire situation and realize that people are dying? Can somebody tell the government to SAVE THE CHILDREN NOW!!!