Manila goes under
source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/27/world/main5344533.shtml
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"Philippine officials say the number of dead and missing from Tropical Storm Ketsana has climbed to at least 106 people.
Where water has subsided, the scenes of destruction are clear - shanties washed away, people left homeless, and garbage everywhere. Some areas are still 20 feet under water.
Emergency workers could be seen carrying bodies on makeshift stretchers in Marikina. One rescuer was seen lifting the small body of a child covered in mud.
The sun shone briefly in Manila on Sunday and showed the extent of devastation in many neighborhoods - destroyed houses, overturned vans and cars, and streets and highways covered in debris and mud."
And all I can think about are the corruption scandals that have plagued Philippine politics in the past few years. Maybe if Pinoy congressman had spent more time on flood mitigation and less on covering up embezzlement not as many people would be lying the city's poorly-funded morgues..
Where water has subsided, the scenes of destruction are clear - shanties washed away, people left homeless, and garbage everywhere. Some areas are still 20 feet under water.
Emergency workers could be seen carrying bodies on makeshift stretchers in Marikina. One rescuer was seen lifting the small body of a child covered in mud.
The sun shone briefly in Manila on Sunday and showed the extent of devastation in many neighborhoods - destroyed houses, overturned vans and cars, and streets and highways covered in debris and mud."
And all I can think about are the corruption scandals that have plagued Philippine politics in the past few years. Maybe if Pinoy congressman had spent more time on flood mitigation and less on covering up embezzlement not as many people would be lying the city's poorly-funded morgues..
