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I’m no Ernie Baron but I do think super hot summers would equate to heavy downpours and Highway rubber boats.
We could not possibly avoid it, it’s a natural phenomenon after all, but the most logical thing we could do is to be prepared for it.
So here are some steps which, I think, could help us brace ourselves for the inevitable:
Don’t barik much
Rainy days are the best days to be with friends as hard, alcoholic drinks would readily compensate for the cold, lonely nights.
And for us, Batanguenos, rejecting a friend’s proposal of merry making is almost a mortal sin.
However, sanity is key to alertness which is very vital once the day of catastrophes comes (and may God forbid).
What to do? Moderate alcoholic drinking for you don’t want to be dead drunk while rescuing your three month old baby from high floods.
Set aside the necessities
Stores may not exactly be in operation when super typhoons arrive into local shores. And in times like these, we may not have the luxury of potable water, food and maintenance meds in our hands.
What to do? Buy beforehand. Stock up some for emergency use and be sure it’s out of reach of the small ones for the cupcakes and biscuits will surely be doomed to kingdom come.
Reinforce our houses
Have you ever heard of houses taken down in Batangas by ridiculous flashfloods? Those are houses which are probably made up of light materials and are located near running waters.
See, floods have been part of our lives since God was in short pants but having houses destroyed by it is totally a different story.
What to do? Reinforce your houses. Probably retrofitting the walls and the foundations of the house would be the best remedy for fragile homes. Moreover, replacing or at least reinforcing withered roofs is ideal unless you fancy stargazing amidst super typhoons.
Short on the budget? Come on, we’re still Filipinos and there’s no such thing we couldn’t invent alternatives for. Withered roof? Used car tires. Withered Walls? Err… tarpaulin!
Be Informed
Know where’s the highest point of the area where you’re in, know what numbers to call, know what to do.
Know how to save your life.
What to do? Don’t totally depend on your know hows. Be open to public information. Expose yourselves to the nightly news and to seminars done by the barangay. For sure, proper information dissemination about where to go and how to react amidst calamities is, as of the moment, one of our local government’s main concerns.
Gear up
The use of umbrellas, raincoats and rubber boots might be corny to most of us. But hey, these trusty gears are the simplest yet most effective weapons of self defense if it rains cats and dogs.
What to do? Save up and buy the more durable ones. The rain gears that cost more but could last for a life time is preferable. And all men who experienced opening an umbrella the wrong way (thus, embarrassing his self) could readily attest to that.
Pray. A lot.
Is self explanatory.
Now whoever says what’s written above is an act of exaggeration may not be in the right frame of mind.
For no one of us, even Ernie Baron este… Kuya Kim could accurately predict how hard a typhoon could hit us.
Keep safe Batanguenos!
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