GIANT FLASH FLOOD SA MONTALBAN, SAN MATEO, MARIKINA AT METRO MANILA?

Kopya sa Pahina ni Pinoy Politika

(Kahapon lamang ay nakapulot ako ng isang lumang at punit-punit na Pahayagan ng nagtatalakay sa Posibilidad ng matinding kalamidad na tatama sa Montalban, San Mateo, marikina, Pasig at Pateros. Ninais kong ilathala dahil sa aking pananaw ang naganap na mataas na baha noong Septemver 26, 2009 ay may malaking kaugnayan dito. Hindi tiyak ang petsa ng pahayagan pero sa caricature nito ay makikita ang 10-17-98 at isang artikulo ay makikita ang 09-11-98. ilan sa nilalaman ay ang mga sumusunod kasama ang mga larawan.)

Malaking pagbaha ang inaasahan sa mga darating na buwan pagdating ng LA NINA phenomenon ayon sa Philippines Atmospheric Geo-physical and Astronomical Service Administration (PAG-ASA).

iDINAdag ng mga Scientist ng Bureau of Soils and Water Management na ang tubig na dadaloy sa ating ilog Montalban ay aabot sa 38 Million cubic meters/hour.

Higit na kinatatakutan ang kasama nitong putik na umaabot sa 145,700 Million tons na may bilis na 120 Kilometer per hour ayon sa Flood Control Office ng Department of Public Works and Highway.

Ito ay may kinalaman sa patuloy na paggiba ng ating kabundukan sa Montalban sa pamamagitan ng mga Quarry operators.

Ang Montalban River ay nasa pagitan ng Mt. Catmon at Mt. Parawagan na may taas na 475 meters at may loosen soil sa gawin gitna na kapag umulan ng 24 oras, ito ay bibigat at babagsak (big landslide and avalanche ) sa ilog na nasa pagitan ng dalawang bundok (damming effect) at magiging artificial lake anh ilog at pagnapuno ay biglang bubulwak ang tubig baha.

Nagpapasabog ng dynamite mauuga ang lupa at maaaring gumuho ang loosen soil

Bumaba ang loosen soil dahil sa pagyanig ng lupa at tumabon sa bunganga ng M0ntalban river

Ganito ang naganap noong September 26, 2009

PANALANGIN SA KALIKASAN

Banal na Espiritu ng aming Mapagmahal na Tagapagligtas,
Naririnig namin ang inyong panawagan
Sa boses, sa hinaing ng aming kapwa
Ibuhos Mo sa amin ang Inyong lakas, ang Inyong Karunungan,
Upang kaming lahat ay magkaisa sa puso't pang-unawa,
Sa pakikipagkapwa, at
Sa sama-samang Pagkilos patungo sa
Isang paghahanda sa anumang kalamidad

Na maaarung sumapit muli sa amin sa anyo ng
Bagyo, baha, lindol, na bunga at dahil
Sa mga binasag na mga Bundok
Ang mga gawain o mga binabalak namin,
Nawa, ay hindi makasira sa kagandahan
Ng Inyong Sangnilikha.
Makatunghay nawa kami ng isang MakaTao,
MakaDiyos, Maka-Kalikasang Kalutasan
Ng Pagkasira ng kalikasan ng aming bayan.
Sa tulong Mo, o Diyos, makapagtalaga nawa
Kami ng aming sarili sa pagtatangol at
Pagkalinga ng Kalikasan ng Mundong Ibabaw

Na siyang kaloob Mo sa amin ngayon
At sa mga susunod na salin-lahi. AMEN

A VOLUNTEER PAYS IF FORWARD: A love story

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By Julie M. Aurelio
Philippine Daily Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines--After he lost almost all of his belongings in the floods brought about by Tropical Storm “Ondoy” last year, this jeepney driver thought it wasn’t enough to simply thank the strangers who helped him get back on his feet.

Sonny Hernandez, 48, a resident of Barangay Nangka in Marikina City, felt it was but right to repay the generosity of his benefactors with the same acts of kindness and love he was shown when he was down and out.

BOTTLES REBORN AS BLANKETSS FOR DISASTER VICTIMS

By Ralph Jennings, Reuters

TAIPEI -- A plastic bottle thrown into a Taipei recycling bin could be reincarnated as a blanket to warm disaster victims in any of 20 countries, thanks to a unique project by the world’s largest Buddhist charity.

REUTERS" A worker stacks blankets made from recycled plastic bottles at the Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation building, Nov. 4. REUTERS

The Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation has been taking plastic bottles from the waste stream of Taipei, a city of 2.6 million, for three years to convert them into about 244,000 polyester blankets intended for disaster zones.

This week, Tzu Chi expanded its one-of-a-kind recycling effort to begin making shirts, scarves and cloth shopping bags.

GRATEFUL CITY SAYS THANKS FOR NEW START

Marikina residents pick up the pieces after Ondoy

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By DJ Yap
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 23:10:00 12/28/2009

MANILA, Philippine – Still reeling from the devastation caused by Tropical Storm “Ondoy” three months ago, Marikina City residents gathered Sunday to give thanks to the kind souls who helped them through a long and tragic year.

Together they prayed that the new year would bring them good tidings and that disaster shall not pass their way again.

Some 20,000 residents from three different faiths — Christian, Muslim and Buddhist — assembled at the Marikina Sports Park for a thanksgiving rally, the first such gathering since Ondoy brought the city to its knees in September, killing dozens of people and destroying billions worth of property and livelihood.

“We give thanks for the compassion we received this year. It is this compassion that can help us move on from this tragedy,” Mayor Marides Fernando told the crowd. “May no disaster of this magnitude ever visit us again,” she said.

The event was organized by the Tzu Chi Foundation, a Taiwan-based nongovernmental organization built on Buddhist teachings, in cooperation with the Marikina City government.

On Sunday, the organization led the thousands in attendance in lighting candles, offering prayers to God, Allah and Buddha.

Tzu Chi Foundation-Philippines chief executive officer Alfredo Li led the Buddhist prayer “to purify the minds of the people, to harmonize society, and that there be no disaster happen not only in Marikina and the Philippines but throughout the universe.”

The organizers said that at the height of Ondoy, Tzu Chi volunteers helped repair the city, providing food and other forms of assistance to the victims, including a cash-for-work program, in which residents were paid P400 for every day of work cleaning up the streets of garbage and debris.

In all, the organization poured in some P60 million for relief and rehabilitation efforts, Li said.

The founder of Tzu Chi, Taiwan-based Master Cheng Yen, said in a video message that people must seek to live simple and frugal lives to achieve harmony with nature and so they may be spared from disasters.

“Only when people’s minds are simple can the world be free of disaster, and we can live in peace,” she said.

Global warming

Global warming fix could threaten food chain

Researchers say plan could jeopardize oceans by introducing toxins into the food chain

An experimental plan to fight global warming could cause blooms of poisonous algae in seafood-rich stretches of the open ocean, say researchers at the University of South Carolina.

For more than 20 years, scientists have discussed whether adding iron to the sea could effectively keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by causing the increased growth of phytoplankton, a tiny ocean plant that absorbs the greenhouse gas from air.

Don't Let it Happen to Us... Let do Recycling