A flood foretold

The Manila Times 19 h Philippines

ON Aug. 15, after two weeks of heavy and incessant rain due to typhoons and the monsoon, a lucky celebrant had a morning of sunshine for her long-planned 80th birthday party in Bacolor, Pampanga. I was an invited guest and duly took the North Luzon Expressway (NLEx) north to Bacolor. It was in normal passable conditions, but I did notice the fields on each side of the expressway flooded almost to

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