JUST A HEADS UP
June 24th 2009 01:31
This post is coming up without a plan, just a heads up. I must have been really busy I didn't notice more than two months have passed since my last post here in Orble.
I was thinking of writing about a festival somewhere in northern Philippines where I happened to help organize a promotional event for that telco that has me scurrying about in this country (which was mentioned in my earlier posts), but I guess that will have to wait for a bit more.
I am still traveling about like mad, reason why I woke up early today. Have to prepare for another dash to the airport that will bring me back to Mindanao. Two meetings with two different sets of people await me there, then off to the airport again to go back to Manila, pick up the car and drive 6 hours to another telco event somewhere in the Bicol region.
There is that weather system which picture I uploaded here that makes me wonder whether I should worry about because it is right smack in between my point of origin and my point of destination today June 24, 2009 ( 8 GMT). But it's center wind is only 75Kph with gustiness up to 90Kph (rather tame compared to the previous ones we had in these parts) so I decided not to.
Then my cell phone rang! And it wouldn't stop. I tried to ignore it. Twice. But it wouldn't give up.It was 6:00am! Too early for any important business call. But obviously, nothing is too early for an emergency. The call was from a town official (a councilor) of Looc, Romblon. A woman who runs a local radio station affiliated to the business organization I am connected with.
It was a frantic call.
That weather system I decided to ignore has actually poured a lot of rain in their area and the town is now flooded. There's no electricity and her radio station which serves as a public information center during states of calamity is now submerged!
Their town needs help and the only way they can call the attention of national government officials and make them act fast is (in this country) thru major media networks that cover natural disasters on a nationwide scale.
I hooked her up with the desk editors of DZRH the flagship AM station of the country's larget radio network. I gave her number and they immediately called her up. I hope that helps.
I have a plane to catch so I didn't know what happened after they called her. But this post is not about the story that I just told. That was just the premise.
This post is for anybody out there who is from Looc, Romblon, Philippines who happened to read this. You may want to check on your relatives back home. They may need a little support, be it just a moral support.
I was thinking of writing about a festival somewhere in northern Philippines where I happened to help organize a promotional event for that telco that has me scurrying about in this country (which was mentioned in my earlier posts), but I guess that will have to wait for a bit more.
I am still traveling about like mad, reason why I woke up early today. Have to prepare for another dash to the airport that will bring me back to Mindanao. Two meetings with two different sets of people await me there, then off to the airport again to go back to Manila, pick up the car and drive 6 hours to another telco event somewhere in the Bicol region.
There is that weather system which picture I uploaded here that makes me wonder whether I should worry about because it is right smack in between my point of origin and my point of destination today June 24, 2009 ( 8 GMT). But it's center wind is only 75Kph with gustiness up to 90Kph (rather tame compared to the previous ones we had in these parts) so I decided not to.
Then my cell phone rang! And it wouldn't stop. I tried to ignore it. Twice. But it wouldn't give up.It was 6:00am! Too early for any important business call. But obviously, nothing is too early for an emergency. The call was from a town official (a councilor) of Looc, Romblon. A woman who runs a local radio station affiliated to the business organization I am connected with.
It was a frantic call.
That weather system I decided to ignore has actually poured a lot of rain in their area and the town is now flooded. There's no electricity and her radio station which serves as a public information center during states of calamity is now submerged!
Their town needs help and the only way they can call the attention of national government officials and make them act fast is (in this country) thru major media networks that cover natural disasters on a nationwide scale.
I hooked her up with the desk editors of DZRH the flagship AM station of the country's larget radio network. I gave her number and they immediately called her up. I hope that helps.
I have a plane to catch so I didn't know what happened after they called her. But this post is not about the story that I just told. That was just the premise.
This post is for anybody out there who is from Looc, Romblon, Philippines who happened to read this. You may want to check on your relatives back home. They may need a little support, be it just a moral support.
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