PAGASA To Adopt 'Super Typhoon' Category
PAGASA may officially use the term "Super Typhoon" to refer to a typhoon with a maximum sustained wind of more than 220 kilometers per hour (137 mph). A typhoon, as revised, is to be classified as having 118 to 220 kph sustained winds.GMA News Online
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/386166/weather/for-improved-response-pagasa-to-adopt-super-typhoon-category-in-2015
CCF Formed To Respond First To Disasters
Singapore formed Corporate Citizen Foundation (CCF) as a response to help victims of disasters from neighboring countries. This coalition of private organization comprises aircraft, healthcare, water purification, civil engineering, and media assets.Today Online, Singapore
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/private-sector-alliance-aims-be-first-responders-should-disaster-strike-region
Point Of View
It's been a year since parts of Eastern Visayas were devastated by the Super Typhoon Yolanda. Yet, until today, these provinces have not progressed due to the super slow and lack of initiative of the Philippine national and local government. On 8 November 2013, national and international organizations responded quickly, before the national Philippine government could, to give assistance to typhoon victims and survivors. Yet, red tape slowed down reaching the victims who immediately needed help.What is Red Tape
- For this POV, I'd like to redefine red tape to mean ~
- -- excessive use of useless USELESS procedures
- -- lack or absence of initiative, due perhaps to fear of making decisions without the epal-go-signal of those higher in rank
- -- epalfie - a viral disease that usually affects people in the government who want their signatures affixed in every document to ensure a certain monetary percentage
- -- mañana habit or bukas na lang attitude - it means doing tomorrow for the nth time what can be done today.
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