MARAWI/ILIGAN floods and landslides…

If you have lived in the area all your life, you would have noticed the physical changes that concerns most people but not nature’s climate variance. How frequent have you heard the Lanao provinces being hit by typhoons, floods and landslides in the past; rarely if ever. Next time you travel between Iligan and Marawi and or to Cagayan de Oro City; take a moment to take notice of the world around you, environs that you have taken for granted. The trees have grown to gigantic overgrowth; the Matampay road on a final climb to Marawi is probably the most dangerous rain or shine road in the world where gigantic trees can bury you and your car any moment while driving through. I used to climb in my younger age the forested cliff from Bito/Rorog-a-agus to the Matampay road. I have walked the entire length of the forested road few times in the past but I don’t remember the plants and trees to be so gloriously in bloom. I wonder if trees ever aged the way human and animals do because along the Matampay Road; the trees seem to grow without end. I won’t be surprised if giant insects suddenly ram your car or a T-ryx jump (a.k.a. Jurassic Park) in front or back of your car to chase you out of your wit.

Obviously; climate change has brought even more rain to the nation’s wettest city. If there are no people; Lake Lanao would be a tropical paradise. I recommend that the Mindanao State University establishes a small weather station that will measure the province’s annual rainfall and a daily temperature “media” broadcast so that the Maranaw Diaspora can, wherever they maybe feel the cool embrace of home. 

2 minutes video edit from GMA's Saksi