Disasters, Mother Nature’s wrath?
Disasters, Mother Nature’s wrath?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
Bulatlat.com
It is no longer raining hard in Metro Manila and in most parts of the country. The skies are cloudy, rain showers are intermittent and hardly a cause for concern. That is why the damage wrought by the monsoon rains three to four weeks ago has almost been forgotten, except by those who continue to wade through floods, such as those living by the shores of Laguna de Bay and in parts of Malabon and Valenzuela, and by those who are struggling to rise up from the deeper debts of poverty that the floods made them sink in. So now it appears that the Aquino administration and the local governments most affected by the floods have moved on to other concerns. It seems that only the weather bureau Pagasa that keeps on reminding us that we have not seen the end of it.
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