Floods in the Philippines

Philippines is a tropical country where typhoons are a common occurrence. Mainly, there are two types of climate in the Philippines, these are wet and dry seasons. An ordinary day for the Philippines would be hot and humid. The months of January to June are known to be the dry months where the sun is at its highest while the rest is considered as the wet or rainy season where rains are expected to pour. Because it is a tropical country, typhoons of different proportions frequented the area.

Climate in the Philippines is fairly simple to understand since it has only two and the months they occur are also equally divided between them. Life in the Philippines, even if poverty is an issue that never goes away, is plain, simple and manageable. This is the exact situation when the effects of climate change suddenly hit the country.

As if caught completely by surprise, people living in the Philippines were unprepared. Even its government was unprepared for this kind of situation. Manila, being its capital, was the hardest to be hit by the raging downpour of the rain—and for very obvious reasons. Unfortunately, with its messed-up waste management, clogged sewage system, seldom-checked dam sites, unorganized evacuation plan and ever expanding grading or leveling of lands, there’s nothing much to be expected but floods and hundreds of death nationwide.

Obviously, the flood that had kept the nation in total freeze is a direct effect of climate change and more of these are to be expected. People of the Philippines are hoping that even if the climate cannot be remedied anytime soon, maybe, just maybe, there will be environmental awareness after the tragedy.

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