It sounds like a broken record already--millions of lives are affected by typhoon, people stranded, vehicles wrecked, stories of victims failing to save a single appliance, deaths, donations needed.
I went to work yesterday. Small car encountered knee-deeps only on two locations. I managed to finish several reports without interruption. But afterwards, one always realizes that deadlines and backlogs are all petty compared to the experience of spending the night in a crowded evacuation center. No one also wants that dreaded feeling of hearing rains getting louder as water pounces roofs, people praying for it to stop, or for Habagat to be gentle at least, even for some minutes just to let the flood subside a bit. And the dread seems to 'rinse and repeat' helplessly year-in year-out-- and it seems to be getting worse.
Yes, we know that through it all we know that the Filipino resilience will persist, but for longer term I hope Pnoy or Mar can convince one good manager from the private sector (like Ramon Jimenez) to take some time-off corporate and his/her corporate pay to see through infrastructure and flood management. Get unencumbered, unelected, unetrenched-in-govt people with the inner drive. We must begin now, even with a small town outside Metro Manila.
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Donate money and goods through your office, community, school, or your trusted agency (check also their creds and track record).
And donating anonymously--always better.
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