in the night garden wiki
Writing this in a coffee machine that has been dismantling my computer quickly during floods last night. At 9 pm, the sky was menacing gray, the air sticky and heavy and immobile. I remember thinking, "the calm before the storm" as it was in the dream faded. An accident rattle Thunder and heavy rain woke me up "plop" abandoned "as rock falls quickly in a pond. Frightened, I jumped out of bed and bedroom below to find the ground floor was flooded and ankle. Wading in the water, looked stunned throughout my stuff on the table and they find themselves in the flow of high shelves on the walls. The computer and its paraphernalia dragged me upstairs the house, even when the water has risen steadily in the knee. I ran down to save young trees for two months of America Rosal drowning.
Our region is prone to flooding. The subdivision was completed in 1950, 4 years after the 2nd World War. The house itself, as indicated by the first entries in the garden path, was completed in 1951. The land was marshy rice field before, about 400 meters from the Pasig River. Even if it was full of mud and stones obviously standards of post-war were weak and does no rise enough to flood. The clay soil is still in some parts of the concrete sidewalk botched. August is the month when the worst floods than expected happen. In the 1980s the waters reached a record high neck, narrowly missing electrical outlets. Then we had to do our kitchen to the second plant and the kitchen and eating there one day.
A few years ago, the city built a dike along the steel plates along the River. This effectively reduces floods and water levels during floods. However, the dam is visibly rusting, marinated in acidic waters, often marshy river. To this end, perennial trash-dumping and discharges of industrial waste from upstream may be due. For all practical purposes, the Pasig River is considered dead by environmentalists, a habitable environment for anything but fish, beaver, fish porter, molluscs and poisonous water snakes.
The indigenous kingdoms in pre-colonial Manila usually built their settlements along this river. During the Spanish colonial period barges navigating the transportation of persons Pasig River and property settlements in Manila. The river provided food for people and water for their crops. Little Recently, the modernization of the Pasig River High won this role as provider and giver of life. Today, people have use for this which is to serve as intermediary for littering. The Pasig River connects two large bodies of water, Laguna de Bay and Manila Bay. Water flows in the direction of either a lower level of the water. During the rainy season, in filing its venom into Manila Bay, where they eventually find their way into the ocean. In dry season, however, residues may lead to the Laguna de Bay if the tide in Manila Bay is high (Pasig River. Wikipedia.)
Indeed, a large fishing lake, Laguna de Bay yields of most crops and Tilapia feed most of the low Small-income people in Metro Manila. She too, has not been affected by the onslaught of pollution, in fact, seems doomed to share the fate of the river Pasig. Tonnes of household waste and industrial and commercial fishing unregulated should end life and life in the lake, beautiful and fertile future predictable … when, God forbid, became a mass of septic tanks drain into sewers Pasig River. If there is no reason for alarm Here are the steps? I wonder. Or save Laguna de Bay, like many other major movements in the past, they are left to vanity, full of fancy partisan voracious as unsustainable and unpredictable, immobilizing and destructive floods?
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