Calamities in our country

The most recent calamities here in the Philippines are the typhoons. Nowadays there are many typhoons left in our country the most typhoon was ONDOY, there are thousands of family victims in this typhoon that are can't survive. So let us help our kababayans here in the Philippines Looking back to previous disasters and natural calamities, our country obviously has never endeavored to be ever-prepared despite repetitive damage to so much property and numerous deaths after each occurrence. As early as some three decades ago, a funded report warned the government that “development should be restricted by the application of controls in three major areas in the Marikina Valley, the western shores of Laguna de Bay, and the Manila Bay coastal area to the north of Manila.” The report noted that “urban development is spreading into these areas which are, in their present state, unsuitable for development either because they are low-lying and liable to flooding, or because development is without adequate facilities for the treatment and disposal of sewage and so will contribute to the severe pollution of areas, such as Laguna de Bay.” What has the government had done since then? For all its greed and negligence, it allowed itself to be bribed into issuing clearances to profit-hungry developers to develop subdivisions in those areas already identified to be too dangerous for human habitation when it should have exercised resolute political will to prevent development in these inhabitable areas. And when the calamity of flooding resulted, the government was ill-prepared..