It was declared yesterday that summer is already here. It is also the start of the El Nino phenomenon.
There was also a typhoon supposed to enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) today (Dec. 3) and would have quickly exited after making land fall in some areas in the Visayas and Mindanao. But it appears that it did not even make it to the PAR.
Though it was true to form. Typhoons this time of year hit only the southern parts of the country. The cold air from Siberia and other cold parts this side of the world redirects typhoons’ paths to the lower parts.
So no more typhoons to hit the northern parts of Luzon until the next rainy season.
And there were only 14 typhoons that made it to the country the past 12 months. The usual numbers are 19 to 20. So not much water was added to our water tables, and not much were absorbed by trees to be released slowly to the environment.
Things then would be bad for agriculture, threatening our food security. Prices would also go sky high. It would be another whammy as we are still reeling from the hardships caused by the pandemic
It would be the same with industries. The lack of water will compromise our power supply. Expect “brownouts” or compromised industrial operations, even jobs security. Everything will slow down even further from our already almost half dead economic activities.
What to do? Individually, we have to tighten our belts even more as we roll up our sleeves even higher and work more so we will not go hungry.
There is always something we can do we never did before to make our situation better. For we have to rely on ourselves. Relying on government’s help would practically be like committing suicide.
While there will be some effect of the spending of politicians these coming elections, those would be short lived. Such would not sustain us long after we have cast our votes.**