Natural Disasters: Bagyo, Lindol, Baha, atbp.

[amras]

PAG-ASA said that this is the strongest rain we had encountered this year. it's like there is too much amount of rain that poured in a very short period of time.

[rico]

i read yesterday's rainfall was equivalent to the rainfall for the whole month of may.

http://news.inq7.net/top/index.php?i...&story_id=6965

[Æsahættr]

YOu all know how "reliable" PAGASA is when it comes to weather forecasting... Were these rains in the forecast, or did they forecast party cloudy for yesterday?

[Kiel]

Blah, it's still raining until now. I wish there's school tomorrow...

[ryanr]

wow...floods right now are pretty bad arent they? news travels faster in SSC compared to the media. Its only now i saw the floods on TV Patrol on TFC channel.

[Kiel]

haha, we get to watch TV Patrol at 6:30PM here, so yeah We people living in the Phils. will tell you all the latest from here. Hay... finally the rains subsided. =)

[ryanr]

hehe...you guys dont really need to watch TV patrol for that kinda stuff. All you need to do is stick you head out the window and see what is happening but yeah, keep us updated

[Edmundtanso]

saw photos online, grabe sa roxas blvd, it showed all the garbage by the bay and on on the sidewalk of roxas blvd., not a nice scene especially for tourists.

btw, does anyone know where is MM dumpsite is now? i heard it's in manila bay somewhere, is this true?

[mysaong03]

no, but havin a dumpsite there was only discussed as 1 of options 4 future garbage mgmt & disposal. we have currently 3 dumpsites-rizal(for the whole MM), payatas- for QC & a very small one near the north harbor in tondo. we dont have a garbage crisis here presently- as what the lgu's here wana project to the public at least. but the ones youve seen on the screen may just be some minor isolated cases, like garbages floating along riverbanks & seawall of manila bay, coz nalilinis naman sila as soon as the weather improves, so dont worry. it actually depends on the efficiency of the lgu-as far as on tourists spots like manila, makati & pasig r concerned, mabilis ang mga mayors kumilos, but as always, cities like pasay, kalookan, quezon, paranaque & camanava, madumi pa rin....

[weirdo]

bat di ko naexperience yang bahang yan? badtrip. ilang araw akong nagko commute mula makati hanggang maynila. sabagay nung thursday nag MRT at LRT ako. hehe. sarap nung umulan. nagpakabasa ako sa skul. sarap sarap. di nga lang ako nakaexperience ng baha. kahit dito sa amin (squalogs area sa makati) walang baha. sabagay yoko maki uso jan sa ihi ng daga disease na yan. hehe. na cancel tuloy ang uaap games nung huwebes. ehehe. saka finals week namin nun. sayang ung dalawang araw. mababawasan term break ko niyan e. wahehe.

[thomasian]

Here's an uste flood along España.
Pic taken by my classmate on her dorm.

The Venice of Asia.

[ryanr]

wow...that is really serious flooding. Espana always gets hit badly...I really wish they do something so it doesnt get flooded anymore. The good thing is that the floods in Espana quickly dissapates/drains away, am i correct?

I think Bangledesh is the "Venice of Asia"

[kiretoce]

Originally Posted by thomasian

Here's an uste flood along España.
Pic taken by my classmate on her dorm.

The Venice of Asia.

The only thing missing are the gondolas plying the waters with their gondoliers belting out Italian arias and love songs to couples snuggled up together! Ha..ha..ha!

[apiong]

Originally Posted by kiretoce

The only thing missing are the gondolas plying the waters with their gondoliers belting out Italian arias and love songs to couples snuggled up together! Ha..ha..ha!

there was a jetski plying espana that day

[renell]

they usually clean-up Roxas boulevard after the typhoon. it's natural, since the typhoon winds blow garbage in different directions. and some of them is gonna end up in Roxas blvd. and the Manila Bay garbarge usually barrages the-now Baywalk

[absent-minded]

wow!! I never remembered Metro manila flooding that badly in the last three years!!! saw news reports from nearby provinces like pampanga on TV Patrol here (in vancouver, haha...) yesterday too. so sad... all the work on huge fields of farmlands literally down the drain. but look at the good side, no traffic in the metro (or espana at least)! haha... j/k.

I remember in may, there was also a pretty big typhoon in Manila. saw pictures of Roxas Blvd. in a thai newspaper (I was in thailand then). everything was all messed cuz the garbage gets blown in. got home two days later and everything was back to normal at the Baywalk - although it was still slightly raining. pretty good clean up crew! and all the election posters were gone too (no, not because of the typhoon - but that could've helped)!! haha... less than two weeks after the elections! that's technically record breaking! hehe...

[renell]

Atienza can't afford to leave our tourist sites shit after a typhoon. i think even when there was no Baywalk they always cleaned up Roxas blvd.

[amras]

alam nyo, problema din kasi ang masyadong maliliit nating drainage system... so it cannot accommodate all the water whenever it rains so hard. not mentioning all the garbage and "missing" esteros.... one more thing is deforestation. this is also the reason why central luzon is/(or was?) flooded so badly aside, of course, from the silted rivers due to lahar. unless these things are to be addressed, we should expect these floods to come again in the future...

[federal]

The flood control project along R10... north side. Near junction of R10 and C4.

[renell]

hmm... do you know what they're doing? Normally drainage works involve opening up a hole for a year, or less, depending on the size of the excavation. Don't they also put those concrete cylindrical rings too?