Pala-isip

The flooding cause some damages on the streets of Metro Manila. Here are some areas you should look out for while driving. This is along EDSA near Connecticut in front of Petron. This sinkhole damaged 7 tires in a span of 45 minutes. Be careful driving.

I went back to Manila last week for a vacation. I must say, nothing much has changed in the Philippines or Manila for that matter. It was raining the whole week and we had a typhoon. As usual, when classes were finally suspended, the rain stopped. Of course, since it was raining hard, most streets were flooded. Unbelievable that this problem has never been solved in more than 20 years. Another thing I noticed which usually happens, whenever there is heavy rain or flooding, roads degrade and potholes pops up everywhere. Why does the DPWH keeps using substandard asphalt? You can see it from the way it was made even without rain that it's substandard. In other countries, asphalts are tightly packed that you they look like smooth concrete. But in the Philippines, asphalt looks like smoothed gravel. So when it rains, they loosen up and breaks apart creating potholes. Once potholes happen, every vehicle slows down creating traffic. No matter how fast the MMDA works to patch things up, th...