05.12.06
The Bicol Catastrophe – The Tragedies of Our Lives
Current Events
Typhoon “Reming” left at least 1,000 dead in the Bicol Region, with the body count still climbing. Reming (international code name: “Durian”) is what we hope would be the last of a series of yearend killer storms to hit the country in 2006. It is a widespread belief that the closer a typhoon is to Christmas, the more devastating it becomes. And so it was with Reming, with a lot of help from the topography of the magnificent, and deadly, Mayon Volcano.
Prof. Randy David, in his regular column in the Inquirer, writes of a disaster threshold. According to Prof. David, our disaster threshold as a nation is extremely low, such that we suffer much from every visiting calamity and we recover ever so slowly.
