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It has been five months since our country suffers from worst typhoons that have been embarked in our history. On the night of September 25, 2009, typhoon Ondoy started its rainfall, no one imagine that it will be heavier the next day, September 26, 2009.

The typhoon Ondoy was even more powerful than the previous typhoon like Milenyo way back year 2005. Not less than a week, another super typhoon hit our country, Pepeng. This typhoon creates damage most likely in the northern part of the country, partly Baguio, Pangasinan and other nearby provinces.

These typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng , causes severe flooding which resulted in the loss of many lives and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people. Our country has turned in an expected horror, submerged houses, washed away shanties and turned roads into raging rivers. Executive villages and subdivisions turned to be ghost towns as what had happen to the Provident village.
We can’t blame anyone or something for what had happened. This is the force of nature, a natural disaster. All we had to do is, to prepare ourselves and to do precautionary measures to avoid casualties.

This experience has teach me lot of things, that make me even realized that our country is now living its second life, that just more rain that time of calamity will swept our country in the map. Geographically speaking, our country has lesser forest range, no more trees that hold the land together garbage anywhere and everywhere, clogged drainage system. These are because of our illicit and manly acts.

Hope this won’t happen again, hope we learn from that dreadful experience. No one was spared, the rich and the poor alike felt the power of nature, everyone was wet, some died, and the rest of the country felt as if they were slapped on the face with the cold reality of nature's wrath.

How many times do we have to experience this tragedy just TO LEARN???


DONA CHARMAINE P. DELIZO
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