The said agency also had long promised to modernize its supercomputing facilities. Take a close look at the HPC project. The bid failed twice. Look closely at the specs for the computers if they are updated. It was found that this project was being awarded to a company, who was previously disqualified,and without any background in weather computing but is fully dependent on a foreign supplier. Again we are about to risk giving our lives to a foreign company that only cares to make profits.

I hope this will be taken seriously or else I am sure more people will perish and destruction will still persist. The perpetrators will go unabated.

Ondoy resulted in floodwaters that reached our Ivory Executive Homes single storey house rooftops. Two-storey Houses in North Fairview were submerged and people were on their rooftops. And this was Fairview which was higher in elevation than the city of Manila, except that it was in the vicinity of La Mesa Dam, the MWSS aqueduct, and the Tullahan River tributaries. Never did we expect that the floods would result in severe damage, resulting in our losing everything to flood waters. Appliances like LCD TVs, home theaters systems, household appliances, cameras, computers, laptops, etc. Clothes were damaged by muddied waters that left rust stains and looked dirty no matter how many times they were washed and bleached. We tried to save our photo albums but some of them were damaged especially black and white photographs of our childhood. Our cars were damaged and are still sitting in the car repair shops waiting for shipment of parts from abroad for computer boxes, fuse boxes, power steering, instrument panels, etc. Our houses did not have flood insurance. The saddest part of this is that this catastrophe should not have happened. I feel for those who lost family members who drowned in the flood and there were many of them down below our subdivision near the newly constructed Atherton Bridge.
When the Dam authorities were interviewed on TV, their faces could not hide the guilt and anguish they were going through. They knew they were responsible for white collar mass murder. They did not need guns for this massacre, all they needed was an order. Some of them suffered nervous breakdowns but we are crying for justice, senators!

Can we conduct a public investigation?

Is there a foreign or local media group willing to investigate and feature what actually happened? Much like the show “Seconds From Disaster” where they thoroughly investigate and document the causes of catastrophes.

Imagine dams inside this basin – in fact a system of dams with aqueducts: Angat, Ipo, Wawa and La Mesa.

Imagine the water levels of the dams before and during storms. Those damns never release water even under threat of failure? I would think that surreptitious release of water during storms conveniently avoids controversy.

Based on Pagasa measurements, imagine how much rainfall accumulated in the basin. What is the egress rate and how much water is needed to flood this basin within hours? We have scientists who could calculate, right?

We need not imagine what could happen. We have witnessed it.

Now imagine if authorities do not care to find out how it happened.

I think it is correct to conclude that these dam(ned) officials should be investigated and thoroughly skinned to hold them responsible for this instant rivers and lakes surprising the people living in the low areas of the city.

While we know that we are in a better situation than many of our kababayans from Marikina and Pasig, the destruction to our homes and businesses could have been avoided had these #%^$##@$%% Dam(ned) officials been more competent.

They need to be held accountable.