Friday, October 9, 2009

The Philippines are having a rough go of it lately...

The typoons have brough flooding and now it appears landslides...
 
Latest landslides, back-to-back storms push death toll to nearly 500
And from my Dad...
Massive mudslides and flooding in central Luzon. The damage to infrastructure, lives, crops from multiple events over the past ten days will have tremendous macroeconomic impacts on philippines for quite some time. The political impacts could potentially be startling.
Nick in Manila:
So yeah, once or twice a day, my power goes out for about 2 hours. Very disruptive to me, but also to those coordinating relief efforts. - Nick in Manila
Nick in Manila:
 Massive humanitarian relief efforts are continuing and have been for quite some time now. No let up. It's pre-occupying a lot of peoples' time.
Nick in Manila:
Metro manila - the economic center of the country - has been placed under rotating blackouts - two to four hours a day each - because of the explosion and fire at a power transformer south of the City at a huge, critical power substation. That just happened last night.
 
 
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."     ---Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
 
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