Taal eruption spurs generosity of US Filipinos

Frustrated like most travelers stranded multiple hours at the airport in Manila, the Queens resident had reason to be grateful nevertheless.

Hearing of ash raining down on relatives’ homes as far from ground zero as Parañaque and San Juan City, her thoughts veered toward residents of Taal and vicinity, their lost homes and livelihood, and the longer-term effects of the eruption on the environment.

Taal’s wrath forced New Yorker Pat Vicente to stretch her annual holiday vacation to nearly a month. CONTRIBUTED Retired senior Vice President for sales with the Associated Press Maria Nimfa Fallarme Ronson made the Philippines her home base in 2016 after living in Hong Kong for over three decades. The British subject flies all over the world for meetings with business associates as partner in her husband Terence Ronson’s hospitality consultancy.

“I’ve lived overseas for 36 years and had an opportunity to catch up intimately with former classmates only recently – for the 45th Maryknoll College homecoming and the forthcoming 50th reunion of STCQC. Little did I realize how precious these connections would be, until Taal Volcano threw a tantrum and wreaked havoc on those living near its vicinity,” Ronson’s flexed her reporter muscles.

Ronson received more bottled water from Maryknoller Maripet Cabreros-Baldemor, who visits one sister in Los Angeles and another in New York at least once a year.

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