Got back last week from Oz on a perfect holiday (and some family, work, other matters) into a supertyphoon here in the Philipines. Things here are a little crazy and very sad. This beautiful country continues to be plagued by seemingly endless bad things.
Typhoon Parma, churned toward the country just a week after tropical storm Ketsana triggered the worst flooding in 40 years in and around Manila, leaving 300+ people dead.
This woman cries beside the coffin of her son who died during the flooding Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009 in suburban Quezon City, Manila.
