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Originally Posted by baddog
The world can't afford to keep ignoring that it isn't going to rain there? What do you suggest we do? Bus them to the Astrodome?
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KRL was referring to the rampant illegal logging. In a majority of the areas in the Philippines that experience mudslides, landslides, and mass flooding, much of the hillside areas are logged heavily. This destroys a natural water brake and the mudslides are the result. It happens almost every 2 to 3 years now. The last time it happened on a large scale was in Real, Quezon in the northern island of Luzon.
Truth be told, the blame for the Saint Bernard, Leyte mudslide should probably not all fall on illegal logging but also on the fact that the town was located in a very low and flat catchbasin as well as the geologic nature of the soil in that region (igneous rock that 'pushes water back' after saturation). There's also a minor earthquake before the mudslide which probably factors into the equation as well.