(This is what remains of a concrete two-storey house during typhoon Reming in Tabaco, Albay. Some of those who survived lost everything they have including their love ones. Some nearly lost their sanity. Others until today are still trying to cope-up with the reality. Many were displaced and relocated. ) About four (4) years ago one of the most devastating typhoon in Philippine history struck Albay. Tabaco was basically isolated from the entire country. Unknown to many, there were government employees who, while on official travel, were trapped in Tabaco, Albay. They couldn't have survived the havoc and escaped death without the help of their fellow government workers, whose families were also in danger. Despite the dangers, they helped each other survive and with good Samaritans along the way, those from Manila crossed the mountains in Tabaco as roads leading to Legaspi City were heavily damaged. After a day's trek, they reached Legaspi City where they boarded a bus going back to Manila.
(Salvador Jarcia of the Regional Fisheries Training Center, BFAR in Tabaco, Albay with companion at the San Lorenzo Ruiz Shrine in Tabaco. In was not planned that he shall coincidentally meet somebody whose loved one was one of those stranded in Tabaco during when typhoon Reming hit Albay. In less than year, Mr. Jarcia shall be retiring from the service.)
This blog is dedicated to the men and women in Tabaco, Albay and the Bicolanos per se, from within and without the government, who helped each other and escaped near death - to the victims of the tragedy and those who are still coping with the lost of their love ones. It is in survival that we unite, in danger that we gather strenght, in fear that we embrace courage and through faith that we endure the challenges. It might have been Divine. It was not planned, but we were given the opportunity to personally thank those who helped our love ones in that fateful days of November about four years ago. It was providential that it was in Legaspi City where we were assigned to do this documentary in quest of CSC's Dangal ng Bayan Awardee. We have to move on . . .
(Salvador Jarcia of the Regional Fisheries Training Center, BFAR in Tabaco, Albay with companion at the San Lorenzo Ruiz Shrine in Tabaco. In was not planned that he shall coincidentally meet somebody whose loved one was one of those stranded in Tabaco during when typhoon Reming hit Albay. In less than year, Mr. Jarcia shall be retiring from the service.)This blog is dedicated to the men and women in Tabaco, Albay and the Bicolanos per se, from within and without the government, who helped each other and escaped near death - to the victims of the tragedy and those who are still coping with the lost of their love ones. It is in survival that we unite, in danger that we gather strenght, in fear that we embrace courage and through faith that we endure the challenges. It might have been Divine. It was not planned, but we were given the opportunity to personally thank those who helped our love ones in that fateful days of November about four years ago. It was providential that it was in Legaspi City where we were assigned to do this documentary in quest of CSC's Dangal ng Bayan Awardee. We have to move on . . .
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