Nation must confront the curse of typhoons

Another typhoon, this time a devastating super-typhoon that hit the country bulls-eye. Nothing new, including the absence of a comprehensive plan of action to deal with the curse of typhoons.

Unless my editors tell me to stop, I’ll be writing every typhoon season, or after a devastating typhoon, versions of the following column I wrote July 2010 at the Philippine Daily Inquirer, right after Typhoon Basyang’s devastation. I’ll be doing so in the hope that some lawmaker or group would pick up my proposal. It argues for the enactment of a law for our nation to build the necessary infrastructure to mitigate the terrible impact of typhoons and monsoon rains on our people.