Boracay has another victim – me. I have a massive blue/black bruise on my upper ass cheek, cuts on the wrist that look like a sorry attempt at suicide, heavy cloth cargo shorts with a cut in the back, a knot on my head…and I’m limping like a gimp in physical therapy. Spent all day [...]
Boracay has taken another victim – me. I found out why they wont choppity-chop the fallen banana palm on the walkway up to here. Because its still alive and has another month to go for the bananas to be ready. This banana tree has been lying there since the typhoon was over many days ago, [...]
Almost came and sat right on top of us. Wind speed estimates were from 90 to 120 km/hr. I dont think anyone actually recorded it here in Boracay. http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/genmet/rpnames.html and http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/jma-center/rsmc-hp-pub-eg/tyname.html These names are preselected in advance and they just go down the list as the storms occur. I had not known this. The first [...]
“…the vessel carried 724 passengers, 111 crew members, and 26 sanitary aides.” What is a sanitary aide? Is it a health care professional or a janitor? And why the term ‘aide’, are they not actually qualified in this field? Who are they aiding, the crew members? That would make 111 supervisors for 26 staffers..on a [...]
I’m not making light of this but it was odd to see this combination of words in an article about the Ferry search being halted because of toxic pesticides that weren’t ever supposed to be on a passenger boat: A handful were positively identified by clothes, scars and jewelery, including a policeman who was returning [...]
Here are some lessons learned after Typhoon Fengshen (frank) Sugar ants can predict typhoons – the recent invasion completely disappeared the morning before the typhoon hit Boracay. They came back at the end of the last rain and are back in force. There is a guy claiming to be a former NASA engineer working as [...]
Check out the inner wall of the eye on Typhoon Fengshen (Frank)! This joker came right next to us that night my drunk ass was walking around the island! You can see the eye open up right at its peak intensity next to Boracay. Credit for the animation goes to typhoon2000.com
UPDATE: whoops, not everyone had power restored like I had said earlier. I went down to Red Pirates and sure enough, they were still without. Several bars/resorts along the southern end of White Beach didn’t have power still…guess I was lucky. As far as I can tell now, everyone seems to have it restored. Honestly, [...]
AaaaHooo!!!! 5 Days now the power has been out on Boracay. The typhoon “Frank” (I know) came in as a mild warning on Friday…nothing special expected here and was supposed to peak around 2pm that day. Whoops. I have too much cleaning up to do now that the power and water are back on so [...]
Myanmar has been making public statements about this cyclone relief-aid fiasco that paints them as just a pack of idiots with less intelligence than a child. Remember not long ago, Congo had ignorant people running around claiming sorcerers/witch doctors were extorting money from them or else have their penis shrunken….and the police were so stupid, [...]
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