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Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for the content of external websites. Switch to Mobile Site. Sites: TheJournal. Manila isn't happy that Dan Brown called it "the gates of hell" Comments. My News. Photo from the Inferno - Dan Brown Facebook page. Still others agree with Brown. I'm buying your book! The answer from malacanan — wait 22 years — Master plan which is an update of the previous plan, and no doubt the precursor of the plan. And keep being surprised when manila floods x times a year.
I wonder if eskimos are as shocked and unprepared when it snows. The MMDA chairman blames clogged drainage and the presence of squatters in esteros, yea he is right but he is also to blame and the rest of the government. They know to well the reasons but they are not doing anything concrete and long lasting solution.
They cannot relocate the squatters because remember come election time they are voters whom our politicians are condoning to stay. So when the flooding comes everybody is affected even those high and mighty politicians riding in their multi million dollar cars will also pass the same flooded roads where the ordinary Filipinos riding in non-air conditioned buses are.
This problem is becoming hopeless but maybe we should keep our smile on our faces when we meet Hades in the underworld. I am so glad I not the one stuck in the traffic jams of the City, called by Brown as the Gates of Hell! But who cares, the Filipinos are used to adversity, and for those who have the chance becomes an OFW and lives abroad. Good Lord. When do Filipinos learn that when they destroy their environment, they are destroying themselves as well!
Even before recent events manila was featured as one of the 5 dirtiest cities in the world. And as a capital city it is the mirror on a country, and somewhere no tourist wants to be, nor any western investor.
It really is shameless how numerous incompetent and corrupt politicians and agency heads has simply allowed a city which once had distinction and heritage simply crumble and decay to the extent it is now a barbaric ghetto. Francis tolentino is so far out of his depth i wonder whether the country has any engineer administrators.
Clearly tolentino is a small town nobody promoted far above his competency level. His excuses and lack of solutions are staggering, just as the amount of time he spends abroad on conferences is incredible.
Flood is a problem that cannot be solved by politics. It is an engineering problem that requires an engineering solution. The simplistic answer i. The transportation mechanism will be the following: 2a. For surface run-off, by drainage gravity flow through natural conduits and waterways i. Flood occurs when either or in any combination of the following conditions are satisfied: 3a. The intensity of rainfall exceeds the capacity of natural or catchment basins eg.
Extreme change in weather patterns such as strong storm surges, and increasing mean sea level. Capacity to store surface run-off Factors: -Insufficient water sheds and vegetative cover deforestation, indiscriminate land conversion, etc. Depicting Manila as a city of "six-hour traffic jams, suffocating pollution [and] horrifying sex trade", Sienna tells readers she has "run through the gates of hell".
While the book has raced to the top of the UK book charts — selling nearly , copies within its first week — it has been panned by British reviewers, who have called it "barmy" and "dreadful". Now, after reading the latest version of the apocalyptic thriller he rewrites every few years, I suspect he might be mad as well," wrote Peter Conrad in the Observer.
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