i just finished watching survivor. i got a bit sad when Marvin was voted out. but what really caught my eye is his being so sport when it comes to the game.
he looked sad as he talked in front of the camera, saying goodbye to the tribe. but what touched me most is this:
"i wanted to be at least on the top 6, pero what can we do. ganun talaga e. everything is planned, there are no accidents in life. maybe this is what God has planned.''
Grabe! i was kind of expecting some expletives from him but he turned out to be such a cool guy. now i wonder how many guys out there have the same strong faith as him.
Sana madagdagan pa katulad ni Marvin whose faith remains strong in the face of adversity. that is why he had easily accepted being the 7th survivor voted out of the game.
saludo ako sau, Marvin!
Friday, October 09, 2009
Friday, October 02, 2009
what to do in the face of a supertyphoon
news source: Philippine Daily Inquirer
disclaimer: i am just reposting this story from the Inquirer and all rights belong to the reporter and the company
Pagasa:
Seek refuge
in strongest
building
By Nikko Dizon
LOOK FOR THE STRONGEST building where you can take refuge and stay put while the storm passes.
This advice from Nathaniel Cruz, Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) deputy director for operations on what to do when Supertyphoon “Pepeng” hits the country.
Packing gusts of 230 kilometers an hour, Pepeng was approaching the northern province of Aurora and its effects could be felt by dawn today. A United Nations’ humanitarian agency said yesterday some 1.8 million people could be exposed to the worst winds from the supertyphoon.
“These gusts are strong enough to destroy houses, rip the roofs off houses,” Cruz said yesterday in a radio interview. “The best thing we can do for the lives of our countrymen is to look for the strongest building where our countrymen can take refuge while the storm is passing.”
His warning came as millions of Filipinos were struggling to recover from Tropical Storm “Ondoy,” which killed at least 293 people as it pounded Manila and surrounding areas with the worst flooding in four decades.
More than three million people were affected by Ondoy, which dumped more than a month’s worth of rains in just nine hours on Saturday.
Stay safe
“All preparations and contingencies should have been in place days ago. Just stay in a safe place [when the supertyphoon hits],” Cruz, told the Inquirer yesterday in a phone interview .
He said a supertyphoon with winds reaching 175 to 200 kilometers per hour, “is very destructive.”
He recalled that in Albay at the height of Supertyphoon “Reming,” winds actually twisted the metal towers of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) before dumping them on the ground.
However, Cruz was quick to clarify that a supertyphoon should not be confused with a tornado that could pick up anything in its path.
Pick up roofs, uproot trees
The Pagasa official said the winds of a supertyphoon was strong enough to pick up “lighter objects” such as rooftops. It could also uproot trees, damage rice and corn plantations, destroy electrical power lines and residential buildings.
Gusts of wind could also push vehicles, he said, just like how the strong currents of the floods brought by Storm Ondoy caused vehicles to pile up on top of each other.
“Overall, the damage a supertyphoon could bring to affected areas could be very heavy,” Cruz said.
Pray and hope for the best
Meanwhile, Aurora Gov. Bella Angara, said officials were preparing for the worst and hoping for the best.
“The prediction is that this typhoon is very strong. Our prayers are that no lives will be lost. God answered our prayers [during Storm Ondoy] and we are hopeful we will be spared again,” Angara said on radio.
Aurora is a mainly rural province of mountains and rice plains, with a population of about 187,000 people. Isabela is another fertile farming region but much bigger and has a population of about 1.4 million.
More wind than rain
Cruz said Pepeng would likely not bring the heavy rains of Ondoy that hit the country last weekend, and the worst of it was forecast to strike over 200 km north of Manila.
But it would still still bring rain to Manila, compounding the heavy flooding which has not yet receded in large parts of the capital and its surroundings.
Cruz warned people in Aurora and the neighboring province of Isabela not to be fooled into thinking the typhoon would not wreak havoc, just because the winds had yet to be be felt.
“They might think it isn’t something to worry about but from our radar and satellite image, we can see it is an incredibly strong typhoon,” he said. With a report from AFP
disclaimer: i am just reposting this story from the Inquirer and all rights belong to the reporter and the company
Pagasa:
Seek refuge
in strongest
building
By Nikko Dizon
LOOK FOR THE STRONGEST building where you can take refuge and stay put while the storm passes.
This advice from Nathaniel Cruz, Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) deputy director for operations on what to do when Supertyphoon “Pepeng” hits the country.
Packing gusts of 230 kilometers an hour, Pepeng was approaching the northern province of Aurora and its effects could be felt by dawn today. A United Nations’ humanitarian agency said yesterday some 1.8 million people could be exposed to the worst winds from the supertyphoon.
“These gusts are strong enough to destroy houses, rip the roofs off houses,” Cruz said yesterday in a radio interview. “The best thing we can do for the lives of our countrymen is to look for the strongest building where our countrymen can take refuge while the storm is passing.”
His warning came as millions of Filipinos were struggling to recover from Tropical Storm “Ondoy,” which killed at least 293 people as it pounded Manila and surrounding areas with the worst flooding in four decades.
More than three million people were affected by Ondoy, which dumped more than a month’s worth of rains in just nine hours on Saturday.
Stay safe
“All preparations and contingencies should have been in place days ago. Just stay in a safe place [when the supertyphoon hits],” Cruz, told the Inquirer yesterday in a phone interview .
He said a supertyphoon with winds reaching 175 to 200 kilometers per hour, “is very destructive.”
He recalled that in Albay at the height of Supertyphoon “Reming,” winds actually twisted the metal towers of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) before dumping them on the ground.
However, Cruz was quick to clarify that a supertyphoon should not be confused with a tornado that could pick up anything in its path.
Pick up roofs, uproot trees
The Pagasa official said the winds of a supertyphoon was strong enough to pick up “lighter objects” such as rooftops. It could also uproot trees, damage rice and corn plantations, destroy electrical power lines and residential buildings.
Gusts of wind could also push vehicles, he said, just like how the strong currents of the floods brought by Storm Ondoy caused vehicles to pile up on top of each other.
“Overall, the damage a supertyphoon could bring to affected areas could be very heavy,” Cruz said.
Pray and hope for the best
Meanwhile, Aurora Gov. Bella Angara, said officials were preparing for the worst and hoping for the best.
“The prediction is that this typhoon is very strong. Our prayers are that no lives will be lost. God answered our prayers [during Storm Ondoy] and we are hopeful we will be spared again,” Angara said on radio.
Aurora is a mainly rural province of mountains and rice plains, with a population of about 187,000 people. Isabela is another fertile farming region but much bigger and has a population of about 1.4 million.
More wind than rain
Cruz said Pepeng would likely not bring the heavy rains of Ondoy that hit the country last weekend, and the worst of it was forecast to strike over 200 km north of Manila.
But it would still still bring rain to Manila, compounding the heavy flooding which has not yet receded in large parts of the capital and its surroundings.
Cruz warned people in Aurora and the neighboring province of Isabela not to be fooled into thinking the typhoon would not wreak havoc, just because the winds had yet to be be felt.
“They might think it isn’t something to worry about but from our radar and satellite image, we can see it is an incredibly strong typhoon,” he said. With a report from AFP
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