Been pausing, avoiding blogging or thinking of this town for awhile...just as many of us are, to do our own little thing for those who are suffering from the super typhoon...
...also just grabbed "emergency blankets" from True Value, at 30% off...no survival kit in order for my household...just a whistle always in my purse, and now, without a thought, the blanket...they're those mylar (space-balloon) materials, which pack very lightly and tiny, yet protect the body by keeping heat in, water off...dad said go ahead, get your own, none for him. He could not imagine what I would need it for. I know I used one over a decade ago in a tent on a mountain. But yes, it's one of those things I hope I will never need. When dad asked me what for, I thought, well, what for indeed? It's hot here.
I do not know what contingency plans are in this city for such a catastrophe.
In the time between the Bohol earthquake and before Typhoon Yolanda was even whispered about...an expatriate neighbor asked me: "Do you know what you're going to do or where you would go if a big earthquake happened here?"
Her question drew a blank.
Her family is visiting Bohol again from Europe this Christmas. "It could happen anywhere!", she said in reply to another expat who questioned if they were not fearful. She reminded us of the flooding that had just occured in her first world country.
She is right. We are away from the Laguna Bay, but we are all within the "Pacific Ring of Fire". We have the Taal volcano and Mt. Makiling. There are fault lines around us...and as Bohol taught us, there are fault lines yet to be discovered. It can happen anywhere, natural disasters.
What worries me is the response.
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