Calamity a test of resiliency, not a showpiece for adversity

It will take a little time to measure the full extent of the damage that typhoon Karding and the southwest monsoon have inflicted on the country and thousands of our people.

Stunned by the scale and severity of the calamity, some have taken to comparing Karding to Ondoy, the tropical storm flood-dumper of 2009, which in the public imagination has become the threshold for a storm-and-flood calamity for this country.