While typhoon Caloy has claimed eight lives in Luzon and is still raging in some parts of the country, Mount Merapi volcano in Indonesia is also spewing burning lava from its crater, forcing thousands to evacuate.
As always, relocation sites could hardly accommodate the evacuees. Someone says, "He who fails to prepare for the night, fails to prepare for the dawn."
It is on the least expected moment that a potentially worst calamity would hit a community and change the face of history.
For instance, the Mabini insecticide poisoning was something so strange to us. Before it happened more than a year ago, we've never heard of anything like that, not only in the history of our province but also in the history of the Philippines. And we were caught with tremendous surprise - so shocking that most of us, especially the authorities who handled the tragedy, can hardly figure out how to respond to the calamity.
But being unprepared for disaster can also be an issue even to the......

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Title: Disaster Management
Approximate Word Count: 694
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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