I have noticed in my 70 years of living in the Philippines that our government hardly plans ahead to provide for potential catastrophic situations that scientists have warned about. Bahala na. Anyway, Filipinos are a resilient people… survivors.
I have noticed in my 70 years of living in the Philippines that our government hardly plans ahead to provide for potential catastrophic situations that scientists have warned about. Bahala na. Anyway, Filipinos are a resilient people… survivors.
The core Metro Manila area is in serious trouble because our government allowed mindless growth in all directions. Without urban planning, we are one chaotic mess. We experience this daily with our merciless traffic jams. It seems that our government is just waiting for one big catastrophe to level down the metropolis. That may happen if the so-called Big One, an earthquake of catastrophic proportions, happens along the West Valley Fault which separates the eastern part of the metropolis from the older western part.
The metro area could split into four parts with no means to get from one to another due to fires, collapsed structures and broken road networks — old Manila constitutes the western portion; Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas, Valenzuela in the north; Las Piñas, Makati, Muntinlupa, Parañaque, Pasay, Pateros and Taguig in the south; and Marikina, Mandaluyong, Pasig, Quezon City and San Juan in the east. Ambulances will be unable to get through the streets and bodies will be lined along the road.
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