Tests of resiliency

CENTRAL Pangasinan has just barely recovered from the extended severe flooding in the last 30 days and here comes Typhoon Ompong again threatening to swamp Dagupan City and its neighbors with floodwaters and with far more damaging impact over the weekend.

Fortunately and as expected, the resilience of our people in coping with calamities took on the recent losses and damages head on, enough to prepare our communities though grudgingly, for another bout with the wrath of nature.

It is not possible to see our towns and cities fully prepared and protected from the onslaught of super typhoons and storm surges.  In fact, all local governments can only learn from past experiences to gauge preparations because no city or town never had the luxury of having enough resources to plan and develop for future calamities.

This is a fact of life in our country that we must accept, and should not be cause for faultfinding among our local government leaders. No community can ever be immune from damaging impact of natural calamities.

We can, and we have to, rely on our tested resiliency to overcome difficult challenges. But this is not to say that we should tolerate ineptness and complacency of our local officials who’ve had lessons to learn from calamity each each time.

 

Trillanes to Duterte: ‘Thank you, Sir’

IS President Duterte making a hero out of Sen. Trillanes?  Seemingly, yes.  That’s because by subjecting Trillanes to a position of perceived persecution, Mr. Duterte could be inadvertently driving the gullible to the senator’s side. Didn’t the President himself fire that double-edged question: “If there are soldiers sympathetic to Trillanes, by all means, they can join Trillanes anytime.”

At the rate Mr. Trillanes has been maximizing his media exposure at every opportunity in fighting the President’s revocation of his amnesty, the senator might already be gaining adherents.   Trillanes surely knows how to play the media with his exaggerated claims. His unexpected situation has been giving him immense media mileage.  Even his decision to continue sleeping in the Senate building seems part of the plan to attract continued media coverage.

Indeed, Trillanes never had it so good.  And he has only Mr. Duterte to thank for.

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