The headlines of the Manila Bulletin is about how folks are donating food, clothing, and money to the 200 thousand displace by flooding, and sending and coffins to bury the flood victims.
Photo shows members of the Philippine Navy carrying coffins, part of 500 coffins from Sto. Tomas, Pampanga, to be loaded on the BRP Dagupan for shipment to flood-hit Iligan and Cagayan de Oro. (Photo by ALI VICOY)
They will be using the same "portable morgue" that they used in the earlier ferry disaster to collect DNA and identification of victims, many of whom will probably be buried unidentified.
Sigh.
Strategy Page warns that the war on corruption might get hot here...
and they also note:
December 19, 2011: A storm of unexpected size and speed hit the south over the weekend, killing over a thousand people and forcing nearly 300,000 from their homes. This has shut down the terrorists, separatists and gangsters, as well as military operations in the flooded areas. Troops and police have been shifted to disaster relief in the areas along the coast were most of the damage was done.
no, the disaster is 400 km south of here, but we've lived through several floods in our rural area, with lower death tolls: usually folks know to evacuate since flooding and typhoons are more common here...
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