This is a new category for this travel site. Although meant to promote my travel business, I now realize how intertwined Travel and Real Life ‘journeys’ are. So with the start of a new year, my wish is that I am able to spread HOPE.
Have you ever thought of how many lives a drop of rain can save?
Did you ever wonder what a drop of rain can destroy?
I would hazard a guess that one drop of rain could be between a teaspoon and a tablespoon – maybe even 2 tbsps.? Yes, imagine how that grows in terms of inches when thousands of raindrops fall in a certain limited area. Then multiply those thousands of raindrops by the number of minutes that they continue to fall on an already sodden earth. More, multiply those minutes of raindrops by the number of hours, or days, that rain continues to pour (yes, not just drop) water onto the ground.
Pretty sure right now that you can imagine the effect of such amount of raindrops falling on a sustained level for even just a number of hours on to, let’s say, a populated city already surrounded by water – a lake inland and the sea on the other side! That’s a double whammy!
Now, let’s talk about this small town in Camarines Sur in the Philippines called Buhi. The place has been under water since the heavens opened up the skies to release the already over-burdened clouds of its load. Pellet-sized drops of rain found their way into the ground and continued to hug the earth, sodden it, and even constructed their own pathways in and out of obstructions like concrete, wood, metal and human beings. Yes, Buhi (and surrounding towns) had no choice but to accept the three days of continuous rain.
The question begs to be asked – What would a dollar mean to this beleaguered town? Think in terms of raindrops, if each person who reads this donate 1 dollar to the cause – think of the RELIEF that each of those townsfolks would experience! Not only in terms of physical comfort but most important would be the feeling that they are NOT forgotten! They matter!
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