Typhoon Ondoy and Peping is a wake call up for all Filipinos. No one was spared from nature’s wrath. Nature does not care about the amount of money a person has on their bank account. Nor does it care about a person social status.  Everyone is equal in Nature's eye.

This is one of the reasons why everyone should act against Global warming. One of its effects, climate change, is causing too much destruction to the country. Crops were ruined, material properties were destroyed and most importantly Lives were lost.

As of this day, death toll has raised t 669. 462 people were injured while 87 still remains unaccounted for/. Typhoon Pepeng (international codename Parma) has claimed 332 lives. On Oct 3 alone, Pepeng killed 92 people while on Oct 8 and 9, 2009 death toll has risen to 251 deaths.

My wife was working on a mall in Quezon City during the typhoon. There was so much precipitation that the daily routes that she takes from our home to her office were already severely flooded.  The amount of rain that fell on that day was highest recorded in more than 40 years. Flood water has even reached the basement of the mall where my wife works at.

How did she go home you may ask? A good thing one of her officemates resides near us and was driving a sports utility vehicle and was kind enough to drop her in our house. Is there a lesson to be learned from all of these? Yes there is. The Philippines was caught off guard.  The government lacks the necessary equipment to effectively rescue does people who were stranded. We should move now against global warming before we loose the chance the to do anything  that would make a difference to our planet