My Inquirer column today on floods in the 17thC.http://opinion.inquirer.net/592...

My Inquirer column today on floods in the 17thC.
http://opinion.inquirer.net/59247/floods-and-repeating-history


Floods and repeating history
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Last Monday, the first day of the rains, I posted a prewar photo from El Renacimiento on Facebook showing women in baro’t saya choosing to wade in floodwaters somewhere in Manila rather than paying to stay dry in a banca or the tranvia parked behind them in the background. I commented that the…