THERE is no need to put up the numbers in terms of the amount of rain Typhoon Carina has spawned, or the areas inundated by water, or the amount of damage to property, or the number of casualties. What we all saw were undeniable images of a cataclysm, screaming at us, telling us of how it is when nature takes its revenge on all our excesses and failures.
Some say that floods are great equalizers, that both rich and poor end up feeling the impacts. This is why some people were offended that I posted on social media an image of a flooded campus of De La Salle University and a flooded street to contrast the seemingly clean flood waters in the former and the dirty waters with all the trash in the latter. I labeled the former as a "flood of the rich" and the latter as a "flood of the poor." I was accused of insensitivity to the plight of those I am implying as the rich who also were affected by the flood. Some even alleged that I was gaslighting them.
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