Churches and Lady Caycay

This photo is not mine. Thanks to the uploader.


This was the catholic church of Oton, Iloilo before Lady Caycay.

Lady Caycay, the tremblor with 8 plus intensity and the only one with a name world wide, crumpled it like a cardboard killing at least one.

That was January 1948. The tremblor's epicenter, Hantik, Antique, belonged to the West Panay Fault, a network that wounds through southern Iloilo, Capiz and Aklan, that is only 10 km from the mega dam in Calinog, Iloilo.

Our church in Igbaras, Iloilo reputedly the biggest in Iloilo, crumbled completely. The replacement structure which is big enough, can comfortably fit into it.

The church of Panay, Capiz was also damaged: its bell fell and sustained a crack (the biggest bell in Asia).

The watch tower cum belfry of Jaro Cathedral, Iloilo City, half of it fell to the ground. (It's about the only belfry in the world detached from the church 100 meters away because it was intended foremostly to alert the Guardia Civil of pirates sneaking through Salog River.)

Mega-dam pa more sa Panay!

Lambunao town, Iloilo rejected to host the dam now about to finish.

Calinog, its own church also damaged by Lady Caycay, accepted it disregarding the 10 kilometers distance from Lambunao which sits right above the fault.

Lady Caycay will not be asleep forever. We dread this but it’s bound to move again.

Arthur Defensor, Sr. in his benign act of senility, waxed poetic in his state-of-the-province-address as Iloilo governor: he hailed its design to be "safe enough to withstand a nuclear bomb explosion". He added: "only a terrorist attack can destroy it."

Bwisit nga Franklin Drilon!

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