Sunday, October 04, 2009

~ Natural Disasters ~

I was kind of worried lately because Hubby is flying back to Manila (which unfortunately has been hit by the typhoons lately.) Ever since Typhoon Ketsana caused major flooding and deaths in the country, the other few typhoons that are coming are also worrying..

I learned from my filipino colleague that Philippines have a local name for their typhoons (in alphabetical order). This way they will know how many typhoons have occur in a year. For example, Ketsana is named "Ondoy".. The next Typhoon was Parma (i.e. Pepeng in local). It was supposed to be classified as a "Super Typhoon" based on it's wind speed and expected to hit Northern Philippines. Luckily it's course kinda diverted further north and its speed reduced slightly.

With Parma still lurking in the SE Asia seas, Typhoon Melor (i.e Quedan) is also coming... There was also a 6.6 magnitude earthquake off Philippines earlier. The neighbouring countries were also not spared of the natural diasasters. Australia had Red Sand Storm on 23rd September. Indonesia was earlier hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake which caused many deaths and destruction. There was also Tsunami and all these unfortunate events seems to be happening near the end of the year.

I hope Hubby's trip will be safe and sound. Can't help worrying.. :(

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