Updated as of 4am: Number of fatalities Typhoon Kristine: 33 dead, 8 missing. Government Officials’ Repetitive Excuse for Flooding: Rains dumped one-month’s rain in one hour, or rains dumped 3-months’ rain in one month – is like saying, it rained a lot that’s why it flooded. If it’s the first time it happened, the lack of preparedness is maybe understandable. If it’s the second or third time that it has happened in the same locality and there is still lack of preparedness ( 🫨🤢 SMH shaking my head) , no longer acceptable. No assessment done and published everytime it happens, no resolutions, no courses of action, no timetables. No audit-performance of local government units and no oversight from the national government.
