What will you do if the schools have been destroyed? If you lose power, water, and communications? No fb, and instagram, no candy crush, no dota 2. No groceries, no meds, no hospitals, and no police, no help and no government?
Watch last week's news on youtube to remind yourself I'm not inventing these realities. Think about a space in your home for emergency supplies for real emergencies so you don't need to steal when your stomachs start to ache for hunger and your brains stops functioning well to think of morality and good.
What will you do if you lost loved ones, your businesses, your joys, your peace? Can you wait 2 weeks for help? Would you just pray, or curse God for sleeping, or post a rant on Facebook against the government for incompetence? Come on.
You need insurance for a good night's sleep. You need insurance for your properties so you can rebuild your homes, for a brand new roof over you and your chosen ones. You need health and life insurance, especially if you are a breadwinner. You might need a second home in another region during emergencies, and you need high-powered weapons for you and your family's security. In short, you must decide to be better prepared or prepare to suffer. Study.
Dying this way is also not very pleasant. All services have been wiped out. Being unprepared means you are willing to die like a dog on the street without a casket, much less a decent funeral parlor where your family and friends may cry and mourn for your loss for a week or so.
Reliance on your government or someone else in times of trouble can be a fatal mistake. I came to wake you up for your own good and for the sake of Filipinos in the next generations. What I'm sure of definitely is that I won't be the last. There will be others of my kind perhaps in a different shape or form. I'm not trying to impress fear because I know what this nation can do and be, the moment it decides to be what it has to be.
Haiyan a.k.a. Yolanda
