mitigating the impact of natural calamities, particularly typhoons in
the country, President Benigno S. Aquino III said on Friday.
The President, who was featured on Youtube's World View interview
series, said his administration has been doing an extensive awareness
campaign as well as reconfiguring government television and radio
stations to give people up-to-date information about typhoons and
other calamities.
The government is establishing a weather program that will give the
people raw data that track and measure the amount of rainfall in
particular, he said.
"Then, there is an ongoing hazard mapping project by the Department of
Science and Technology that identifies areas most prone to flooding,
flashfloods or landslides," the President said.
"We are already at the stage for flooding, we already have this method
that for most of the country, we'll have a minimum of 12 hours
warning."
To mitigate the effects of landslides, the government has been doing
mathematical mapping of hazard zones and locally made sensors have
been deployed to give early warnings, the President said.
"The mathematical map will be able to help us say that it has reached
the threshold for this particular area, that the danger of landslides
is eminent already," he said.
While encouraging the people to educate themselves, he asked for them
to cooperate with civil defense personnel during emergency
evacuations.
Although the government is empowered by law to do forced evacuation,
the President said the government did some corrections to protect
public property during times of emergency relocation by deploying
police forces in deserted areas to prevent looting.
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