The wet season is just around the corner…
Written on Friday, May 23rd, 2008 at 10:34 am | by benign0There’s been a short lull in killer mudslides and flashfloods hitting the Philippines — the kinds that kill thousands in one swoop. Interestingly, today’s headline Living dangerously with landslides of the Visayas bureau of the INQ7.net may be an ominous sign that the next one may be coming due — considering that the Wet Season of the tropics is just around the corner, bringing to light the testimony of a survivor quoted in that article:
[…] life was going on smoothly in their village until some people started cutting the trees on Mt. Can-abag in the early 1980s. Since then their water became murky whenever there was heavy rain […]
It is a topic I am passionate about, passionate enough to lock horns with Alecks Pabico back in 2006 in the aftermath of the Leyte Mudslide of 2006 that snuffed out 1,100 Pinoy souls. What triggered that was a child-like observation I made of the PCIJ Blog and the nature of its content in the days following the tragedy. Within several weeks of the 2006 Leyte Mudslide, no less than 15 politically-motivated entries were made against a mere two Mudslide-related articles.
Pinoy blogosphere, 2006 in the aftermath of a 1,100-dead mudslide:
Politics-15, Mudslide-2.
That little scorecard says something about the character of our society which I don’t think I need to elaborate on. You connect the dots.
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