Oct 09
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This interesting article discusses how the recent natural disasters will affect the upcoming 2010 Philippine elections.
Ondoy and Pepeng have already drastically redrawn the political map of the May 2010 presidential election more than any other nature-triggered calamity that hit the country during the past 40 years.
They are the worst disasters to shake the country, in political and security terms, since the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in June 1991.
The Pinatubo event produced the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century. It was purely a natural catastrophe, unlike the Ondoy and Pepeng disasters in which the flooding was not mainly caused by an extraordinary volume of rainfall. The flooding was aggravated by manmade abuse of the urban drainage infrastructure (i.e., clogging of esteros, creeks and rivers with mountains of plastic garbage bags).
