Pet Melliza

Perhaps, this calamity in the Kingdom by the River is one of the rare moments when King Tura blew his top after learning that a very vital office, the seat of the two-way transciever, was shut during the onslaught of the hurricane and its immediate aftermath. "Yudi...a!" somebody heard him at the end of the line. We don't know if he repeated the same to Boy Angsot, the man of all seasons, and the commander of the radio room. Boy Angsot preocupied himself with everything in sight including the free meals served by Dok Nenet of the social welfare for her volunteers. As info man, he is supposed to inform which he did  not; he left that job instead on Geriboy the disaster coordinator, renamed todate to DRRMO (disaster-risk reduction and mangement officer). But Boy Angsot still got the nerve to gather media people and declare to them that Geriboy did a poor job. He insisted that the disaster man erect a bulletin board for updates for all, especially, reporters to ...

This is already the third day of continuous operations of the Iloilo Provincial Disaster-Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO), and so far, participants in this task of delivering relief goods to victims of superhowler Yolanda, show no sign of fatigue. They all deserve our gratitude and admiration -- public officials and non-government individuals who responded within 24 hours from November 8, 2013 mornbing when Yolanda landfell in northern Iloilo. As of this writing around 100,000 families were dislocated, 11,000 homes wrecked, and 90 to 100 persons dead in the aftermath. Iloilo Gov. Arthur D. Defensor, Sr. was on leave to bury his 13-month old apo  in Manila. Nevertheless, he still made his presence felt on air even before the typhoon struck by repeatedly calling on people along dandger zones (river banks, flood plains, and landslide prone areas) to evacuate. Defensor kept in touch with people on the ground by assuring constituents that Iloilo had subsanti...