Yolanda disaster (before and after): whose fault was it?

**vinj** · December 2nd, 2013 10:11 AM

If you ask me, it's a disaster because of ill-informed constituents, ill-trained personnel and ill-equipped municipalities (we all know why), and ill-brained LGUs na walang alam kundi magpa-pogi pag eleksyon. You can see the night and day difference that preparation, spearheaded by a proactive LGU and experienced leader can do.

Filipinos are likewise not safety conscious. Just ask the two guys riding in tandem on the motorbike in front of me this morning... carrying a box and heavy duffle bag, barely able to keep their balance (i guess that's why they left their helmets off na...dagdag bigat pa).

**Monseratto** · December 7th, 2013 06:50 PM

Three fallguys who were supposed to explain the position of the goverment and guide the foreign journalists during the initial response to the disaster. But ended up making PNoy a laughing stock.

Have anyone seen them in Malacanang lately...? Si Herminio Coloma lang palagi nag press coonference.

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**cardict** · December 7th, 2013 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by Monseratto

Three fallguys who were supposed to explain the position of the goverment and guide the foreign journalists during the initial response to the disaster. But ended up making PNoy a laughing stock.

Have anyone seen them in Malacanang lately...? Si Herminio Coloma lang palagi nag press coonference.

News5 Everywhere - AUDIO | VALTE, CARANDANG, LACIERDA, TITIWALAG KAY PNOY?

Kanya kanya kasi ng diskarte

**explorer** · December 8th, 2013 10:24 PM

di maka move on si mayor...mukhang mas dinamdam pa ang sinabi sa kanya ng superior nya kesa yung mga namatay na mahigit 3000(?) sa lugar na sakop nya...

from: Tacloban mayor says he’s still hurt by Aquino’s words

Tacloban mayor says he’s still hurt by Aquino’s words

Philippine Daily Inquirer
12:27 am | Sunday, December 8th, 2013

TACLOBAN CITY—The mayor of this city, which is known as Ground Zero of the destruction wrought by Supertyphoon “Yolanda,” said he was still hurting from criticisms leveled by the President on the city government’s supposed disaster unpreparedness.

Mr. Aquino, Mayor Alfred Romualdez said, should have first come to the aid of the city before criticizing how the city government dealt with the storm.

The President, said Romualdez, “made that comment on a Saturday. He came here on a Sunday. I felt bad because how can you make those comments when you were not even here?” he said.

The mayor said Mr. Aquino’s conclusion that the city government was unprepared came as a surprise because it was “made without even considering that this was the most powerful typhoon in history.”

“I felt bad,” Romualdez said.

“If your child falls down, you have to embrace him before bringing him to a hospital to make sure he is OK. I think that was what we needed,” he said.

Romualdez, however, stopped short of criticizing the national government’s handling of the disaster.

“I think it is better for people to pass judgment on that,” he said.

Romualdez said what was more important to him was to help his people get back on their feet.

“You may not know but according to experts, many of the people here are suffering psychologically from shock,” Romualdez said. “Your imagination goes wild when you see dead people everywhere.”

His city, the mayor said, needed “words of encouragement, words of support and words of caring. That’s all we need.”
The residents of Quinapondan town in Eastern Samar appeared to be in agreement with Romualdez.

Amid criticisms he should have brought in more relief to help storm victims in the Visayas, Quinapondan residents said they were happy at just seeing boxer Manny Pacquiao in person.

“Even without the relief, seeing him in person and shaking hands with him are already enough to make us happy,” said Lita Palines, 70, a Quinapondan resident.

Pacquiao had admitted the 10 truckloads of relief items he had ordered transported from General Santos City to typhoon-devastated areas were not enough and would benefit only a few people.

**Stoner** · December 9th, 2013 11:46 AM

Diyan magaling officials natin. butthurt at hugas-kamay.

The concept of Command Responsibility is foreign to them.

**ClaNker** · December 9th, 2013 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by explorer

di maka move on si mayor...mukhang mas dinamdam pa ang sinabi sa kanya ng superior nya kesa yung mga namatay na mahigit 3000(?) sa lugar na sakop nya...

from: Tacloban mayor says he’s still hurt by Aquino’s words

Kapal ng mukha nitong si romualdez, daming namatay sa mga constituents nya dahil sa kabobohan nya.

**ClaNker** · December 10th, 2013 10:15 AM

May paiyak-iyak pa ang inutile na Mayor.

**Monseratto** · December 10th, 2013 10:55 PM

ROXAS: "You Have to understand you are a Roumaldez, and the President is a Aquino. So we just want to legalize this...If it's not legalize. You are in charge. We won't help you, Bahala na kayo sa buhay niyo..."

Best way to sink your chances in 2016.

**shadow** · December 10th, 2013 11:10 PM

Na cut na....hinde na pinakita yun sinabi after "the president is an Aquino..." Meron naman mga minutes yun meetings eh

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#retzing

**ClaNker** · December 11th, 2013 01:57 AM

Originally Posted by Monseratto

ROXAS: "You Have to understand you are a Roumaldez, and the President is a Aquino. So we just want to legalize this...If it's not legalize. You are in charge. We won't help you, Bahala na kayo sa buhay niyo..."

Best way to sink your chances in 2016.

Ginagawa lahat ni meyor mapagtakpan lang kapalpakan at kabobohan nya.