Trillan's Journal: The other side of life here

Of course, the other side of life here is the natural disasters, which I'll group the police force in with just for simplicity's sake...

To quote one website: In 2000 a Brussels-based research centre declared the Philippines the most disaster-prone country on earth. It named typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, garbage landslides and military action against Muslim insurgents as just some of the problems both locals and tourists have had to deal with.

My wife and I went out today -- the weather really isn't that bad here, not much worse than a Vancouver, BC, Canada storm except it doesn't stop. A lot of stores are closing early to give people time to get home early. Schools are closed. It's a "warning 2" -- a class below the one that removed the second floor of the house my wife lived in a few years ago. According to one report, there's already 400+ dead.

Where am I in relation to all of this? Well, both Winnie and Yoyong have passed to the north of me, by maybe a few hundred miles.

Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention the police force problem. Link is here.