It is difficult to be happy that the weather isn’t so horribly hot and dry when we know that rains mean floods and destruction, and the displacement of thousands to school gyms and churches turned evacuation centers. Never mind that it might just be habagat rains gone on too long, or that the typhoon isn’t even really going to make landfall; it takes so little for our streets to flood, and for too many homes to be rendered inhabitable.

That it takes so little for rains to damage people’s homes, that it takes so little rain to render the metropolis paralyzed, is obvious to all of us who live in this country with eyes wide open.

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