NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental – Last week was probably the first time that the entire country was ravaged by intense torrential rains virulently brought by a typhoon. Two days before its first landfall on 29 October, in Catanduanes, Typhoon Paeng was already dropping disastrous water bombs in various places in Mindanao, Western and Eastern Visayas, and the rest of Luzon, triggering flash floods and landslides.
The massive disturbance of forests and uplands, for instance, by open-pit mining and unregulated logging, weaken and make them susceptible to erosion and disastrous landslides. Erosion burdens rivers and other waterways with silts, making them shallow and constricted. Thus, they quickly overflow causing flash floods in many places even during a brief downpour.
We can only imagine the impact of Typhoon Paeng in the submerged areas of Caloocan, Malabon and Navotas , Hagonoy and Calumpit Bulacan, and Masantol and Candaba in Pampanga. These areas, according to experts, have been sinking over the years and have gone underwater. Past typhoons have nothing to do with their sinking, but a vicious one like Paeng with a heavy load of rain may worsen the deplorable condition of these communities.
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