Typhoon Chedeng weakens, our confidence-level stregthens

No one would want to repeat the unpreparedness for the tragic typhoon Yolanda...for now.

Not only Jesus has brought back to life by the Easter Sunday, it also gave life to the normal airing of television programs. And while I was watching the noontime news program of the free TV, news about the weakening of the Typhoon Chedeng (international name Maysak) from the expected 210 kilometers per hour (kph) to 55 kph.

Just days before the said news, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US released satellite images showing the terror Chedeng might bring to the Philippines. Even I was amazed on how perfect the angle of the photo was. It will indeed create panic and chaos by the illusion it brings to anyone who’ll see it.

Read: http://news.yahoo.com/super-typhoon-maysak-photos-space-nasa-190250204.html

This phenomenon forced some social media users to utter a small prayer via their status boxes. Also, the ever-dependable and omnipresent Department of Interior and Local Government secretary Mar Roxas delivered told in a press conference on how they are prepared on fighting this typhoon and shielding the people from the potential flying roofs and uprooted trees.

I must say that Roxas has learned his lesson on disaster preparedness, or at least making the people believe that their government will come to the rescue in case such upcoming disasters.

And, come Easter Sunday, the expected Yolanda-like typhoon didn't materialize. It only brought some winds here and there, no big deal unlike Yolanda just two years ago. As of the posting of this opinion, no casualties are recorded, and most of the people of Isabela (where Chedeng is expected to unleash its rage) are safe, but not comfortable, in their selected evacuation sites.

We have learned our lesson. We are prepared more than ever. As far as we can, we are not letting this kind of typhoons kill innocent but stubborn people who won’t go to evacuation sites.

But I wonder, come three to five years, when no Yolanda-like typhoon ever landed again in the country, would we still be that prepared?

I hope we could adapt with the climate change, ‘cause as you noticed, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration has declared the official arrival of the summer season, yet, the Pacific Ocean continues to brew stronger typhoons.