How com the Phillipines were so unprepared?

[Clinton Huxley]

Yeah, should have buried a few bottles of water, tin of beans.

[mistermack]

Yeah, should have buried a few bottles of water, tin of beans.

I'll bet a lot of them wish they did.
A lot of kids are ill from drinking dirty water. Shame to lose your child, because you didn't take the most simple basic precaution.

[Clinton Huxley]

I think your ideas are about as useful as the old "paint your windows white" advice from the Cold War.

[mistermack]

I think your ideas are about as useful as the old "paint your windows white" advice from the Cold War.

Tell that to someone who just dug up their bottles of clean water, when everyone else is drinking their own poo.

[Clinton Huxley]

Yeah, dug through tons of rubble and shit covering what's left of his house and either use it all up on day one or have it stolen by water-muggers.

[mistermack]

Yeah, dug through tons of rubble and shit covering what's left of his house and either use it all up on day one or have it stolen by water-muggers.

Your imagination is running riot.
If your house weighed tons and was made of stone or brick, they it's probably still standing.
And who's going to put up a sign saying, '' I have lots of clean water, lucky me !! ''

[Clinton Huxley]

Whole districts are totalled. I bet some people can't even find their house.

[klr]

Whole districts are totalled. I bet some people can't even find their house.

Some people probably can't even work out where their house used to be.

[mistermack]

I'm watching the news now, people are dragging plastic 25 litre type bottles of water through the streets on little trolleys.
Better late than never I guess.

[Clinton Huxley]

I know California runs all kind of public awareness programmes re earthquakes and the kind of kit people should have ready. I bet most people take no notice

[mistermack]

I know California runs all kind of public awareness programmes re earthquakes and the kind of kit people should have ready. I bet most people take no notice

Yes, that's true. But I knew that this storm was going to hit the Philippines two or three days before it hit.
You would think that the people living there were made aware. They do have a widely used warning system, because of the risk of Sunamis and Typhoons. They get about twenty Typhoons a year, so the warning system is there, and it's apparently quite good.

[Clinton Huxley]

human nature to expect the worst to happen to the other guy. I don't think they've been especially complacent.

[mistermack]

To be honest, I probably have the advantage on them, because I've been storing water for years.
Firstly my drinking springwater, in the 25 liter containers in my garage, but also, I use an allotment in Gloucester, and there is no water supply there, so I store water there in the big 100 litre industrial plastic barrels. They stand over three feet tall, but I dug them into holes so that kids couldn't come along and tip them over. It takes about half an hour at the most, for those very big barrels to dig a hole two or three feet deep. And when they are full of water, I can guarantee that NO weather would shift them.
To do the same for a twenty litre would take five or ten minutes with a spade.
But, if they've never done it, I guess it wouldn't be so obvious. But this won't be the last typhoon, so maybe next time, some might try it. And there's no reason you couldn't do the same with rice.

[Blind groper]

Again, you guys ignore the extreme poverty most of those people live in. They cannot afford to buy more than day to day requirements, and they often go hungry even so. Their meagre supplies would almost all get lost when their homes disintegrate around their heads. What we in the wealthy west can do, and actually do, may not be possible to a person who can barely buy enough rice for his family's meals for one day at a time.

[Tyrannical]

Whose fault is the extreme poverty? Japan after WWII rebuilt themselves into a first world economy.