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8 Responses to “How bad Typhon Ondoy was”

1. Typhoon Ondoy Profiled by Technology says:

   September 27, 2009 at 4:46 am

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2. Bayanihan, Web 2.0 Style | Prudence and Madness says:

   September 27, 2009 at 9:53 am

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3. bulokilong says:

   September 28, 2009 at 9:44 pm

   Re: Marikina Flood (typhoon Undoy) 26 Sept. 2009,
   death toll in Provident Village alone:
   Official( according to MCF)= 16 dead
   unofficial = 58 dead

   A SENATE INVESTIGATION IS IN ORDER!!!

   The recent flood is the very unfortunate result of both natural and man made calamities. The release of excess dam waters was done without thinking of the consequences. it is both a criminal and insane act.

   “The Angat Lake created by the Angat dam is the main potable water supply source of the Metro Manila Area. However this water when in over abundance, due to very heavy rainfall, is also the cause of widespread flooding, deaths, and accompanying misery affecting not only the provinces of Bulacan and Pampanga but also the Metro Manila Area. This happens everytime the dam water reaches its maximum height and the spilled water races down through the gullies and streams to the east of the dam and this rampaging water joins the water of the Marikina river system multiplying the floodwater volume of the Marikina River system thereby causing rapid increase in the volume of floodwater in the Marikina Valley. This happens everytime very heavy rains overfills the Angat water reservoir. The solution to this problem is the construction of water diversion/power generation tunnels to divert excess water towards the east emptying into the Pacific Ocean. It will also generate power. It is not enough that the excess water is emptied into the heavily populated areas, i.e, Bulacan, Pampanga area,Marikina Valley, as it definitely will cause multiple death and destruction downstream. Diverting the excess water to the east will save so many lives as the east side is relatively sparsely populated and at the same time generate power for electricity. The Government of the Republic of the Philippines must consider this as a permanent solution to the recurring problem of flooding in the central Luzon area and Metro Manila.”

   I’m sorry for encroaching into your space but I do not know where to start. Please think about the opinion I expressed above. You may freely share this thought with your friends, hoping that someday, the people criminally responsible for the release of Angat dam water, on the morning of 26 September 2009,shall face the bar of justice. An in-depth study and analysis of google maps and wikimapia maps will prove my point. Better still, a short helicopter trip tracing the path of the floodwaters will verify this matter. The evidence left by the rampaging flood water will trace it back to its source and is difficult, impossible to erase.

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4. Philippine Floods: How Mobile Twitter and Facebook Helped | PMP Today says:

   September 29, 2009 at 8:13 pm

   [...] the disaster was evident on Youtube and news Philippine news channels (gmanews, abs-cbn.news). If you need to see more images, I [...]

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5. Raul C says:

   October 1, 2009 at 7:30 pm

   Does Google and/or Wikimapia map contain terrestial elevations to prove bulokilongs’ findings? NAMRIA maps have elevations and will definitely tell where Angat dam water spilling goes.

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6. Emer C says:

   September 30, 2009 at 2:35 am

   The Angat dam empties into the Angat river in the Ipo watershed, There is another dam downstream, the Ipo dam, which again empties downstream to towns in Bulacan. The Angat river empties north into manila bay in the marshland delta near pampanga river. Marikina River is fed by Montalban river, which is blocked by a range of mountains from angat lake. Building tunnels through the Sierra Madre range would cost so much, why not build the pipes directly to Manila Bay instead?

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7. dementia says:

   October 2, 2009 at 12:31 am

   It doesn’t AFAIK

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8. Emer C says:

   October 3, 2009 at 4:46 pm

   google earth has wonderful terrain features which you can view in 3d.

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