Rain and Floods

It's been raining in Cotabato for several days now. It used to be long time ago, Cotabato rained only at night which was good for the farmers. If it rained during the day, it was probably due to the sweeping end of a typhoon tail somewhere in Luzon and/or the Visayas. These past few years however, low pressure areas are more oftenly spotted somewhere near Mindanao. Last year and the year before, two storms hit Mindanao: Cagayan de Oro and Davao region devastatingly. Although Cotabato has not experienced a direct hit yet, but we have been living through successive rains which rarely happened before and flooding occurs all around low lying area due to poor drainage system and poor city planning and calamity preparation foresight. The city local government is now clamoring for help from the national level for the dredging of the river delta which has been a white elephant project ever since the start of its supposedly operation.

On a lighter side - Personally though, I love down cast weather. I stay at home. It makes me lazy and sleepy. The cool air makes me hungry too. When it rains, I like to read, or tinker around with little memorabilia things like old photographs, my stamp collections or do jigsaw puzzle. These days, I write my blogs just like what I am doing right now.

But irregardless of my own personal weather preference, I do hope some help materializes for Cotabato City. That the dredging at the mouth of the river will soon occur to help ease out the flooding that is causing a lot of misery to a lot of people. Some of our store employees are greatly affected too. They live in low lying places that get flooded even at the slightest rain. Or maybe it is the wrath of nature that throws back at us, because we do not know how to take care of our surroundings. Our forests are denuded because of illegal logging, our mountains are swept away from greedy miners, people dispassionately throw rubbish around the streets and water ways, our leaders enrich themselves with public funds, etc. If for anything at all, we are mostly the root cause of our own problem by our own devil may care attitude until a calamity over takes us. And then we pray..... for God to help us............