At last I found my digicam's charger and managed to upload the said pictures I promised from my last post about being stranded in the downtown area due to flood. This happened on the first week of June and most of the major roads here in Davao were flooded. Floods here are getting worst. Pictures are taken along Quirino Avenue.
Several years back, as I remember, whenever there's heavy rains in the city, motorists only avoid certain areas such as in J.P. Laurel Ave. along Davao Light's Office. That's the usual place where there is flood, but now, everywhere you go you see flood and it is alarming for us locals here. Who wouldn't be? City Mayor blamed it from Global Warming and poor garbage disposal.
Just last week another heavy rain poured the whole night and again floods were evident. On the next day, the commuters had difficulty going to school or to their office because of flood and it was hard to find public transpo. That brought some schools to decide to suspend their classes.
Now, local government were cleaning up some drainage in the city and found out lots of garbage that could have contributed to the floods. *Sweat.
Crissy's Haven: Stucked Up!
Several years back, as I remember, whenever there's heavy rains in the city, motorists only avoid certain areas such as in J.P. Laurel Ave. along Davao Light's Office. That's the usual place where there is flood, but now, everywhere you go you see flood and it is alarming for us locals here. Who wouldn't be? City Mayor blamed it from Global Warming and poor garbage disposal.
Just last week another heavy rain poured the whole night and again floods were evident. On the next day, the commuters had difficulty going to school or to their office because of flood and it was hard to find public transpo. That brought some schools to decide to suspend their classes.
Now, local government were cleaning up some drainage in the city and found out lots of garbage that could have contributed to the floods. *Sweat.
Crissy's Haven: Stucked Up!
6 comments:
i was home last month and i'm glad i didn't experience this. heavy rains yes but no floods. sad to hear about this to think that davao city is actually quite strict in enforcing proper garbage disposal. i hope this problem will be addressed soon seeing that the rainy days has started.
thats look pretty bad :(
looks bad indeed!
hay, we're suffering from this problem over and over again, there's a lot of things being mismanaged, and one of those is our drainage sys.
you're from davao pala, hubby and i stayed there for 4 years, enjoyed every minute of it, 4 best years of our lives. we would be visiting soon, hope the weather by then would be great. we've always been so used to a "sunny" davao.
regards =)
This scene also happen at my place often...thanks to the land developer that doesn't care about it...grrrr
wow binabaha na pala sa davao ngayon. i love this city.
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