Blame it on the Moon
10 15 2009
I was watching a witch hunt today on a local channel in the Philippines. Quite funny to watch this old newscaster turn red and blue with indignation. She was fumbling with papers and grand gesturing as if it would be a finality. She even doodled with a non working pen as if it meant a thousand words. Let the people in charge do their work. She was trying to pin the blame and I sure no one would accept the blame for these calamities. No one would dare be out of job and responsible for the flooding in all of Luzon. If we could link any government name to the Luzon catastrophe, I am sure we would have done so. It just adds ratings for rambling about theoretically right?
As we all know and have experienced in these trying weeks the onslaught of two typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng, landslides, flooding, and deaths to hundreds of Filipinos trapped around Luzon and the Capital region. The calamity doesn't stop there as we come to realize that these conditions will be happening again and again. That the land we have our home are worthless under threat of these magnitude of flooding. We haven't even experienced the earthquakes. I am sure we would be up in arms on the safeguards pretty soon. There will be landslides during rains, There will be flooding during rains and there will be deaths during calamities. Our trash and excuses for our accountability really is for the record. Maybe because it is easier to blame and leave the problem to the government, Pagasa, Redcross and to private philanthropists the bulk. That we have at last some peace before the elections. Mind you, it never ridiculously peaked as before yet. It is easy and laziness to ask for help but it is harder for Filipinos to help ourselves -- the right and proper way. Be accountable for whatever another Filipino has done wrong. We never wanted to pick up a thrash that a neighbor threw because it has H1N1 virus so we let the flooding swell until it reaches our own homes. We turn a blind eye if a neighbor would cover and build housings on every available land and reclaimed lands. Maybe everyone is looking to whatever we can salvage to prepare for the Christmas season. It will not be the same for 2009, 2010 and et all. We need people who work together. We would never survive this ordeal if we do not pick up ourselves and start cleaning our acts and the nearest tributaries that we have in our cities. The metro aides have done there cleaning everyday but they would not be able to do anything with the magnitude that the trash is accumulating. No human effort can swell this tide but we can try. No one is coming to clean them until the next typhoon. Believe me it will happen again. I couldn't really believe the emotions that drive human beings to argue themselves to the grave. Perhaps I am a bit irreverent to my elders but this really does the trick. There is wisdom in our history and there is none in histrionics.
I watched a cable channel about the Matawan Creek swelling up and tides going in from the sea and creating a temporary salt water environment for man eating sharks to swim up and terrorize inhabitants upriver in New Jersey in 1916. They blamed it on the moon.
“Matawan Creek is a creek and partially a tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies in the east central sector of New Jersey across from Staten Island, New York.
During the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, the creek was made infamous due to horrific shark attacks on July 12, 1916, occurring 15 miles (25 km) from the ocean. A shark or sharks killed 11-year-old Lester Stillwell and his 24-year-old would-be rescuer Watson "Stanley" Fisher and severely injured 14 year old Joseph Dunn later that same day.
This account, in addition to a number of other shark attacks in the local area, are believed to have been the inspiration for the popular novel Jaws, written by Peter Benchley, who in turn co-wrote the screenplay for the blockbuster film of the same name directed by Steven Spielberg. Benchley was a New Jersey native, and had done research on the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 previously.”
Without the knowledge learned many things would not be discovered and applied continuously to better mankind. But what does this have to do about our problems now? I also tried to google recent flooding in Asia and came up with an article in India.
Here is the article dated Oct 04 2009 from Times in India on the day of the full moon:
“After flood, full Moon sparks fear of high tide havoc along coast “
“VIJAYAWADA: Pournami, or the full Moon day, is adding to the gloom along coastal areas. In addition to the flood fear, high tidal waves are threatening habitations along the coast. Sources said tidal waves were virtually pushing flood waters back resulting in greater inundation.
Normally, the flood waters drain out into the sea easily and the impact of flooding is less in areas on the shoreline. However, the full Moon day, which fell on Saturday, is adding to the flood problem.
Though residents are not new to such waves in the sea during full Moon and new Moon days, the floods have added to their woes. They believe Gangamma talli, the sea goddess, turns furious on Pournami and Amavasya days because of which fishermen do not venture into the sea.
"The furious sea is not accepting flood waters, which have already started reaching sea on Saturday morning. It will create more trouble for rescue operations as the flood waters could swerve into new areas if the sea does not take the entire flood waters at once," said Jayaprakash Narayana, chief executive officer, zilla parishad.
According to experts, more tidal waves would hit the coast late Saturday night in Tenali division in Guntur and Diviseema, where people are rushing to relief centres.”
I really wanted to read about this theory and that someone would be pointing it. But I guess it would be more interesting for me to write about it though. We can blame the full moon last Oct 4 2009 for the calamity building up before, during and after. Let us hope that we would anticipate this phenomenon more seriously. Let us hope that we learn from smaller warnings rather than catastrophic high tides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, excessive rains, prolonged flooding, typhoons, hurricanes et al. that is why some floods remain in affected areas. Of course trash and overdevelopment are also the problem. Those we can work together. I wonder who would donate their lands for conservation? Prevent themselves from earning profits from mining and properties? I wonder who would plant trees again? We are destroying anything naturally created, We cannot afford to wait for relief goods. Clean your own city first before others would help you. We have basically been getting under the influence of the moon. Going in circles. Ha ha ha ha ha ha and getting crazy on national television. Whining you suck! End of story.
Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
*** visit me at
ChatGPT-4
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www.amielroldan.wordpress.com
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I was watching a witch hunt today on a local channel in the Philippines. Quite funny to watch this old newscaster turn red and blue with indignation. She was fumbling with papers and grand gesturing as if it would be a finality. She even doodled with a non working pen as if it meant a thousand words. Let the people in charge do their work. She was trying to pin the blame and I sure no one would accept the blame for these calamities. No one would dare be out of job and responsible for the flooding in all of Luzon. If we could link any government name to the Luzon catastrophe, I am sure we would have done so. It just adds ratings for rambling about theoretically right?
As we all know and have experienced in these trying weeks the onslaught of two typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng, landslides, flooding, and deaths to hundreds of Filipinos trapped around Luzon and the Capital region. The calamity doesn't stop there as we come to realize that these conditions will be happening again and again. That the land we have our home are worthless under threat of these magnitude of flooding. We haven't even experienced the earthquakes. I am sure we would be up in arms on the safeguards pretty soon. There will be landslides during rains, There will be flooding during rains and there will be deaths during calamities. Our trash and excuses for our accountability really is for the record. Maybe because it is easier to blame and leave the problem to the government, Pagasa, Redcross and to private philanthropists the bulk. That we have at last some peace before the elections. Mind you, it never ridiculously peaked as before yet. It is easy and laziness to ask for help but it is harder for Filipinos to help ourselves -- the right and proper way. Be accountable for whatever another Filipino has done wrong. We never wanted to pick up a thrash that a neighbor threw because it has H1N1 virus so we let the flooding swell until it reaches our own homes. We turn a blind eye if a neighbor would cover and build housings on every available land and reclaimed lands. Maybe everyone is looking to whatever we can salvage to prepare for the Christmas season. It will not be the same for 2009, 2010 and et all. We need people who work together. We would never survive this ordeal if we do not pick up ourselves and start cleaning our acts and the nearest tributaries that we have in our cities. The metro aides have done there cleaning everyday but they would not be able to do anything with the magnitude that the trash is accumulating. No human effort can swell this tide but we can try. No one is coming to clean them until the next typhoon. Believe me it will happen again. I couldn't really believe the emotions that drive human beings to argue themselves to the grave. Perhaps I am a bit irreverent to my elders but this really does the trick. There is wisdom in our history and there is none in histrionics.
I watched a cable channel about the Matawan Creek swelling up and tides going in from the sea and creating a temporary salt water environment for man eating sharks to swim up and terrorize inhabitants upriver in New Jersey in 1916. They blamed it on the moon.
“Matawan Creek is a creek and partially a tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies in the east central sector of New Jersey across from Staten Island, New York.
During the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, the creek was made infamous due to horrific shark attacks on July 12, 1916, occurring 15 miles (25 km) from the ocean. A shark or sharks killed 11-year-old Lester Stillwell and his 24-year-old would-be rescuer Watson "Stanley" Fisher and severely injured 14 year old Joseph Dunn later that same day.
This account, in addition to a number of other shark attacks in the local area, are believed to have been the inspiration for the popular novel Jaws, written by Peter Benchley, who in turn co-wrote the screenplay for the blockbuster film of the same name directed by Steven Spielberg. Benchley was a New Jersey native, and had done research on the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 previously.”
Without the knowledge learned many things would not be discovered and applied continuously to better mankind. But what does this have to do about our problems now? I also tried to google recent flooding in Asia and came up with an article in India.
Here is the article dated Oct 04 2009 from Times in India on the day of the full moon:
“After flood, full Moon sparks fear of high tide havoc along coast “
“VIJAYAWADA: Pournami, or the full Moon day, is adding to the gloom along coastal areas. In addition to the flood fear, high tidal waves are threatening habitations along the coast. Sources said tidal waves were virtually pushing flood waters back resulting in greater inundation.
Normally, the flood waters drain out into the sea easily and the impact of flooding is less in areas on the shoreline. However, the full Moon day, which fell on Saturday, is adding to the flood problem.
Though residents are not new to such waves in the sea during full Moon and new Moon days, the floods have added to their woes. They believe Gangamma talli, the sea goddess, turns furious on Pournami and Amavasya days because of which fishermen do not venture into the sea.
"The furious sea is not accepting flood waters, which have already started reaching sea on Saturday morning. It will create more trouble for rescue operations as the flood waters could swerve into new areas if the sea does not take the entire flood waters at once," said Jayaprakash Narayana, chief executive officer, zilla parishad.
According to experts, more tidal waves would hit the coast late Saturday night in Tenali division in Guntur and Diviseema, where people are rushing to relief centres.”
I really wanted to read about this theory and that someone would be pointing it. But I guess it would be more interesting for me to write about it though. We can blame the full moon last Oct 4 2009 for the calamity building up before, during and after. Let us hope that we would anticipate this phenomenon more seriously. Let us hope that we learn from smaller warnings rather than catastrophic high tides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, excessive rains, prolonged flooding, typhoons, hurricanes et al. that is why some floods remain in affected areas. Of course trash and overdevelopment are also the problem. Those we can work together. I wonder who would donate their lands for conservation? Prevent themselves from earning profits from mining and properties? I wonder who would plant trees again? We are destroying anything naturally created, We cannot afford to wait for relief goods. Clean your own city first before others would help you. We have basically been getting under the influence of the moon. Going in circles. Ha ha ha ha ha ha and getting crazy on national television. Whining you suck! End of story.
Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
*** visit me at
ChatGPT-4
at my blogs:
www.amielroldan.wordpress.com
www.amielroldan.blogspot.com
www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/a-g-roldan.html
please comment and tag if you like my compilations.
amiel_roldan@yahoo.com
amiel.roldan@gmail.com
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