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UST Flooded - Tropical Storm Ondoy (Ketsana) Strikes UST | Photo 04 
There's a strange calm over the UST campus after midnight. Lights in some of the buildings on campus are still on, which is highly unusual at that hour.
The campus of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines flooded by heavy rains produced by Tropical Storm Ondoy (or known by its international code name: Ketsana) on September 26, 2009.
© 2009 Ashley D. Cristal, All Rights Reserved. Use of this photograph in ANY form is NOT permitted without permission from the author.
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at 19:14 on September 27th, 2009
excuse me, may i edit this pic and post in on Facebook? ill acknowledge your name and put all credit under you. I just need to edit this to show other schools that there is still hope despite the recent events. Please and thank you and more power to you.
at 13:35 on September 30th, 2009
UST and UNENDING GRACE! (thurs oct 1, 2009) In hindsight, i once wrote in a paper submitted to Fr Rodel Aligan how our schools put SAFETY CONSCIOUSNESS in limbo among the course offerings. Then AH1N1 came...then ONDOY. The realities of environmental disasters due to global warming, the possibilities of biological warfare, the possibilities of the ultimate nuclear disaster -- are taken by most of us complacent people as the warning of doomsday prophets - until any of them hits us smack on our faces. Freshmen should be oriented not only about the campus but also about SAFETY. Parents know that UST is flood prone, but they trust UST so much that they send their children to our school. I could just imagine the kitchens in the campus, specially that in the Fathers' Residence trying to cook food for those who are stranded in the buildings. Many Thomasians would rather saty in the safety of our buildings rather than brave the flood waters, which is good, especially so that UST is known to provide food for those trapped/stranded in the buildings. Kitchens in the campus can only do so much and yet not much in case of worse disasters. When classes resume, it is a Thomasian's duty to discuss in class and with their friends some safety and survival tips until the storm/typhoon dies down. To the two engineering students who allowed me to hitch a ride in their taxi (which later had water up to our seats!) on their way to Trinoma last Saturday at past 11 am up to Del Monte, thanks! This person in me survived the raging water rapids in most streets. My rewards were lost step-ins and horrible body pains, yet alive to be with my family. I look forward to stories of humor after the stories of pain. terraces
at 21:14 on October 2nd, 2009
Use to be a med student way back in the 80's. Never had the chance to experience this kind of flooding INSIDE UST. Espana gets flooded as always but never inside the campus. Wonder what happened to the taxes for flood control that the government keeps on collecting. More so on the many flood control projects that the government has been doing these so many years. Where did it all go? Your answer is as good as mine.But in retrospect, I expected the flooding to get worse as the years will go by. Why? all the watersheds around MetroManila are now developed. Where are the trees? Montalban used to be a forest now all developers are in there building subdivisions. Hope that investors will not be attracted to live in the high ground for they will be contributing to the floods. So too with San Mateo. Antipolo is now a very urbanized area. Coupled with the many squatter shanties blocking Marikina River and Pasig River. Water has nowhere else to go but to the streets and residences of MetroManila. And the areas around Laguna Lake, towns lining from Rizal and LAguna province, that too, will be affected. Floodwaters will not subside till the rains stop. Looks like it is time for us to become Venice of Asia. Laguna Lake has no other outlet but the small silted, narrow Pasig River. Those floodgates are there to create flood. Temporary, costly and gargantuan solutions are to desilt Pasig River, remove all the shanties along the river, create another outlet for the lake (easier said than done) and plant a billion trees around the mountains of the Metropolis. Hopefully in a hundred years from now, (if we are able to stop global warming), Manila will not be flooded anymore. Pessimistic view? Hope I am dead wrong in my analysis.Global warming will be another issue which is too humongous for MetroManila to deal with. If this factor isn't address the soonest, we can all forget about MetroManila and watch it sink to the bottom of the water. This is the main cause. Kind of pessimistic of me...