According to the news yesterday, the typhoon was bound to set the land in Bolinao in the evening, and Bani is just a town before center of the typhoon. But before learning the news today about the devastation, I’ve tried to call back my Mom, but their phones are turned off, maybe they’re saving the batteries for important usage since the the power lines are down. But my brother told me that, my parents called him when I’m in the University, so I need not to worry anymore.

It would always be difficult to believe in things you haven’t even seen ever before in your life. Unfortunately, we only get to believe too late, when we cannot do anymore to reverse or reduce the occurrence of the problem.

Global warming already started to manifest. Greenhouse effect isn’t perceived negatively during its first discovery. It was thought that without it, there would be no life on earth. But during industrialization, the greenhouse gases started to increase due to increase emission, until today. This increase, unfortunately did not resulted to better life on earth but it just elevated the temperature of the planet. This sudden change triggered other factors like climate change. Climate change is the first sign according to experts. The recent ideas regarding Global Warming isn’t just a prediction, different collaborative studies proved it’s real.

Extreme weather is becoming more intense but less predictable. In the Philippines, April is still a summertime. But just yesterday, streets of Manila was flooded due to almost an entire day of raining but there were no reported typhoons from the Weather Department. In Espanya Boulevard near University of Santo Tomas area, the flood reached knee-level. Students, office workers and passersby were stranded, while traffic jams because of inaccessible streets.