Not quite right on target
Eduardo Pontaoe
23 Oct 2009
Re: First flood warning
Ms. Macapuno,
You better start expressing your apologies because what you’re talking about this calamity that befell Pangasinan, is not quite right on target.
If there’s to blame, you could blame everybody from Arroyo, to Espin-off to the lowly rat at San Roque.
Typhoon Pepeng’s wrath was the worst in forty years. In that time past, the government didn’t do nothing to prepare itself, possibly believing, that a whacker of such magnitude will never happen, but it did happen.
Never mind the engineered minds who knew almost anything about the containment capacity of the dam at San Roque, never mind the incompetence – if ever – of those in-charge in what/when to release waters to avoid the rupture of the dam itself.
Remember, the water unloaded by Pepeng was unexpected in fury and amount, that nothing could stop the destruction in its path. Even the gargantuan reservoir at San Roque is not enough. Even the idea that should’ve been taken in releasing the waters piecemeal is wishful thinking.
Lookee here! The earthen-concreted levees built around New Orleans according to the US Army Corps of Engineers were enough to contain Lake Pontchartrain until Katrina. How wrong they were! The same thing with Pepeng’s.
Now, comes the blame game. Who’s to blame? Politics is around the corner, and this Pepeng and all its ramifications is a . . . leche plan . . . made for the occasion.
It can be seen when waters still up to everybody’s neck, when politicking started and politicians like Espin-off was at once before the TV cameras doing his thing and looking for the usual suspect . . . the scapegoat to deflect the criticism that can fall on his head.
Ask Espin-off if ever he believed the containment pond at San Roque’s not enough and all the protocols written to address such a problem. He would say . . . am putting this in his mouth . . . he’d place the decision in management’s hands.
Sick and tired of corruption, huh? Ester, since when you realized corruption is happening in that God forsaken place?
By the way, the aftermath though sad and pitiful goes hand-in-hand with natural and man-made destructions
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