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buenas pascua! ah, how the kids can remind us that Christmas is really that--MERRY!


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anyone can help me??? i just want to know if theres any farms in kalibo and lakes or rivers... thnk u... i will wait for your reply... thanks...

Thank you Mikko

Hi Val, I should say a big THANK YOU for your effort in providing us with a comprehensive picture(s) and stories about the latest hapennings in our beloved hometown Kalibo and Aklan as a whole. I really appreciate it....M. Joji

thank God i found this site. for more than a month, i couldn't shoot nor get still pictures of our ordeal because my gadgets were damaged by Frank, or so. great site. thank you for helping us show the world the magnitude of the havoc. kudos for a job well done!

you can grab all the pics you need...please give credit na lang to who posted it....thanks

Hello Olga,
I've been hearing the same stories form Chrency too. He's reconstructing everything in their Badminton court/farm ion New Buswang...looks like their following the trend of the DIesel fuel prices ...We will be going home too on the the 6th of August to attend my Mama's 65th birthday . Retired na sya from Public service then, I will surely go around Kalibo and nearby towns to take pictures for the site...The MMDA is still there huh! well and good! I think they have the right equipment for the sewage problem in the town...say hi to Lora for me...

Val

My sincerest gratitude goes to Frederick and Sandy Romero for posting their own collection of pictures and videos. The videos were jaw dropping!

hey. can i copy some of the pics? :)

Nong Val,

Grabe ... gin-minatuod gid man nimo. "Take more pictures"???? Ha Ha Ha.

Thanks so much for your time doing this, hindi biro ang uploading, moderating and maintaining a wonderful blog site.

Im alive!
Cheryl

Science is a wreck...
I will see what I can do about pics of the school....

Kaeuoy man ay Pedie nga mga orchids....hehehehe

I would like to share a comment by my Auntie,Cheerie Magalit a former geologist at PHILVOCS.....The Aklan River - A Response to "Baha It Eapok" Jul 21, '08 8:22 PM
for everyone

Thank you for the info. I am impressed with the historical perspective. I am glad that somebody mentioned this event because this certainly is an important point of discussion. In fact, this morning while I was sipping my tea and pondering on this horrific event in Aklan, the story of my grandma about the "baha it eapok" came to mind. I remember her telling events in her life and she used the baha it eapok as the reference point. This was a prominent feature in her stories. We know that this happened before and it happened again with unimaginable damage . Now the question is what caused it? Was it caused by natural events? If it is a natural event which we have no control of, what can we do to mitigate the effects or the severity of the damage? Perhaps we can look at land use planning, reforestation, etc. Was the damage exacerbated or even caused by manmade activities like deforestation, diversion of river channels, channelization, etc. I am not sure about the cyclical nature of this event. I am just putting in my two cents so please bear with me. Rivers always seek the sea level and the activities of a river such as erosion and deposition is determined by its life stage (young, mature and old). A young river undercuts or deepens its channels at its source in the mountains, in our case, Libacao and Madalag) so its activities are mainly erosion (removing and transporting materials). These rivers are characterized by high energy waters, very steep slopes (such as waterfalls) and deep, V-shaped channels. As the river continues its journey towards the sea it will encounter flat areas (as in Kalibo, Banga and Numancia.) Here, the river loses its energy and deposits its load ( mostly silt and mud) thereby making the channels shallow. Instead of deepening its channels it will broaden them. The river has then reached its mature stage. At this stage because the channels are wide and shallow, flooding happens. The river also meanders or the path winds like a snake and there are portions where deposition happens (land is added on the inside curve of the river) or erosion happens (land is removed on the outside curve). This is why if you are living near the river your land might be diminishing or expanding depending on where it is on the river’s path. Where the river meets the sea, deposition also happens and forms a delta. I believe that portions of Kalibo and Numancia are located on the delta. When a river reaches its old stage it will cut some of its channels and will form isolated lakes or oxbow lakes. I don’t think the Aklan River has reached this stage yet.

Some years an area might be expanding because deposition is occurring and some years it is diminishing because erosion is happening. A river changes its course and where deposition used to occur, it could now be eroding and vice versa. The changing of a river’s course can be a response to the uplift/rising or sinking of the land which is a tectonic event (i.e. movement of the earth’s plate where our land sits on, also related to volcanism and earthquakes). This we do not have control of. What we can control is where we build our homes and other activities. Channelization, a manmade activity, can also change a river’s course. The deepening, widening or straightening of a river’s course to prevent flooding might actually cause flooding in the long run. I believe that what happened on June 21st is a result of so many things. Several questions come to mind. Does global warming have anything to do with the severe weather conditions that dumped so much rain? Did deforestation in the river's headwaters (source), caused the soil to be saturated and thus flowed down slopes? Is the dredging of parts of the river for construction materials and channelization causing the rivers to change course and most seriously, cause damming of waters which then causes severe flooding in the lowlands when these “dams” break?

I am glad that you have brought this topic of “Baha it Eapok” because this definitely is a great point of discussion. And you are right, bringing in geologists to study the river’s history and activities and predicting what it will do next is certainly a smart move. That’s not because I am a geologist (not practicing at the moment). Just kidding.

One more point, now that we know that a disaster of this magnitude can happen, perhaps the government should put an emergency preparedness plan in place. I will suggest that some kind of warning system should also be established so that when rainfall reaches a certain amount in the headlands, people in the lowlands should be warned. It will be beneficial to see what PHIVOLCS and other government agencies have done in Bicol in terms of lahar warnings. In the meantime, as you said, let us be mindful of what we do to our environment.








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