Classes up to the college-level in Metro Manila have been suspended today, July 27, by Malacañang through Executive Secretary Jojo Ochoa, due to Typhoon Juaning, as recommended by PAGASA (the weather bureau) and the NDRRMC (disaster coordinating), according to Bandila news of ABS-CBN.
When it rains golf balls and you start noticing, even if you’re doing something else, and when the rain starts turning into rumbling water boulders, and you start quietly timing it in your head, 15 minutes…. 20 minutes…because you have a vivid memory, tucked somewhere, of thousands dying helplessly the last time that happened, and you start telling people to think of getting indoors or getting home, you have what i call – Ondoy phobia; but unlike any other kind of phobia, it is perfectly rational, and perfectly reasonable, in a country where people have learned to take care of themselves without government.
