SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA
Privilege Speech on the Human Face of Floods
Senate Session Hall
September 18, 2013
Stranded commuters, long queues in public transport stations, students wading in flood waters, stalled cars, highways and streets inundated by flood waters, bancas in city streets as a mode of transportation—this has become a usual scenario as the new normal weather events bring voluminous rains, causing floods of various levels in the metropolis.
Ginoong Pangulo,
Normal sa isang nanay na nagtatrabaho ang gumising […]
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