A rather late post. I’m supposed to write about the typhoon right after I got online. I just couldn’t write easily by my experience – I had friends who lost their loved ones during the typhoon.

Typhoon Lupit (international name) or Ramil (Philippine name) is currently headed our way – the same area that Typhoon Parma/Pepeng trekked. The eye of the typhoon will not hit Manila (based on the weather forecast). We, Baguio residents, fear  more landslides because the ground had not dried up from the previous typhoon.

The news about the Philippines getting flooded by Typhoon Ketsana (international name) or Ondoy (Philippine name) was well-known around the world – I think because people based in Manila are able to utilize the internet to put up causes and ask for help from the world.

When Typhoon Parma (international name) or Peping (Philippine name) came into the country, there wasn’t much buzz on it. National media may have mentioned the extent of the damage and told everyone that this is worse than Typhoon Ondoy that struck Manila, but I think they had just shortly mentioned the damages up here in the north. Besides, I myself had not been able to find very very active bloggers who live up here.

Typhoon Parma visited while Manila lives back to normal. Should Typhoon Parma visited Manila instead of northern Philippines, then the situation could have been far worse.

Manila had floods, but that’s just a small section of Manila. But I understand that even if that’s a smaller section, Manila is crowded so thousands of families are affected.

Since I live in Baguio City, a mountaineous part of the country, landslides are more common than floods. 

Baguio City Isolated in the Highlands