Parokya ni Edgar frontman Chito Miranda lamented the fate of those whose houses were not built too well, amid typhoon Jolina.
Korina Sanchez only has praises for an organization which was instrumental in saving the lives of animals stranded by the onslaught of Typhoon Ulysses.
We’ve had our share of dismal weather. I pray for a long respite while we sadly pick up the pieces from the last typhoon. Videos of the devastation from Mangkhut have been chilling. Someone called it “the wrath of nature.”
The student from Quezon province finished his schoolwork in the classroom where there is electricity, just before the storm.
IN 2007, Inquirer artist Albert Rodriguez created the comic strip Crazy Jhenny, inspired by Joyce Abaño, a coworker who had moved from Ormoc to Manila to work. “She’s really funny, and had crazy adventures and mishaps as an editorial assistant and as a reporter. I thought it would make a great strip,” he said. “When she left, I got ideas from my friends and family.”
Setting aside competition, collegiate athletes went out of their way to inspire others to do what they can for Supertyphoon “Yolanda” victims in the Visayas.
There was news footage of a woman digging through debris and holding an unassembled Christmas tree she found under the ruins, possibly from a store that had collapsed under the brunt of Supertyphoon “Yolanda.”
Look, it’s a hurricane! It’s a cyclone! No, it’s a typhoon! A powerful typhoon hit the Philippines on Friday and moved out to the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). Hurricane? Cyclone? Typhoon? They’re all the same—officially tropical cyclones. But they just use distinctive terms for a storm in different parts of the world.
Dame Odelia Gregorio-Arroyo of the Order of Malta called it “a miracle of hope” when the Order built 100 homes for the victims of typhoon “Sendong” in Iligan.
In these times of climate change, you never really know what’s going to happen next. Nature can be so unpredictable...
