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.
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.
The heavy rains, merciless floods and mudslides that hit Japan recently took the lives of at least 200 people. Towns...
For broadcaster Bernadette Sembrano-Aguinaldo, now is the time to clean up with the weather finally being good after days of heavy rains.
Schadenfreude is defined by Merriam-Webster as enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others. This is probably what Christopher Lao suspected...
Rescue teams, police and hospital workers went above and beyond the call of duty to come to the aid of those in need, logging in long hours and setting aside their own comforts and event safety to serve other people. Volunteers wasted no time, springing to action even as the disaster was still unfolding. They braved the strong rain and the flooded streets to get to relief centers, to cook meals, to pack goods, to get people to safety, to let the hapless know they weren’t forgotten. Those who couldn’t leave their homes raided their closets and pantries for things they could donate and used the Internet to disseminate important information. Donations have been given and pledges have been made even by people outside the country. We wish we had all their names so we could honor them. They are all heroes.
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.
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.
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.
Last week, an earthquake struck Luzon and heavy rains caused flash floods again in Metro Manila.
