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It has happened too many times: Even without a storm signal, heavy rains and sudden flooding force authorities to suspend...
Thanks to its innocence, a child seems able to blind itself blissfully to the ugliness of tragedy and disaster, whether it’s a war, as shown in the award-winning Italian film with that precise title, or the more familiar experience of storms and their inevitable consequence—floods.
Following the recent floods, the Department of Health has warned against the outbreak of certain diseases. One of those which people have to watch out for, aside from respiratory ailments, is diarrhea, especially among children.
The heavy rains, merciless floods and mudslides that hit Japan recently took the lives of at least 200 people. Towns...
A major worry for people during the rainy season, especially if floodwaters get inside their homes, is damage to appliances.
They were two children, a girl and her younger brother, expert swimmers. Their house was destroyed when cataclysmic floods struck Iligan City in Mindanao last December. Their parents perished, along with two other siblings.
Schadenfreude is defined by Merriam-Webster as enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others. This is probably what Christopher Lao suspected...
Last week’s heavy monsoon rains revived memories of “Ondoy” in 2009, which had broken records, with a month’s worth of rain falling in just six hours.
Thank goodness for Facebook, which has alerted people to every little irregularity, anomaly and failure in taste that publicity-hungry politicos are guilty of. Latest, very distasteful case in point: calamity campaigning.
In the days of flooding that paralyzed Metro Manila and Luzon, young people lost no time in using the power of visual communication and graphic design to help those severely affected by the calamity. Their works here rally the people to help.
