1.

How does having multiple advisories and newscasts on typhoons, earthquakes, 

volcanic eruptions and the like benefit students like you? 

It benefits students like me because I am living in a dormitory with other people so 
by getting these multiple advisories and newscasts on possible disasters will help me 
prepare earlier for it. I underestimated the COVID-19 virus so I was alone in the 
dormitory when the President announced ECQ, it was so hard for me to be alone during 
that time. Transportation was not available as well so I really had a hard time getting 
picked up from the dorm but thankfully, after spending a month alone I was picked up by a 
family friend. I underestimated the coronavirus. It taught me to take the announcements 
seriously and prepare even though they are just announcements.  

2. In Rachel Kyte’s TedxTalk ​From Disaster Response to Disaster Prevention, ​she 

mentioned “it will be the poor, for it is always the poor” when it comes to those 
hit hard by calamities. How much of this is true or not in your community? 

I agree with Rachel’s statement but it does not affect my community. I live in a 
community where people are blessed to afford fire alarms and enough resources for when 
a disaster hits our place. However, In the city I live in, the most vulnerable people live in 
disaster risk places, the wires from the electrical posts are all tangled together and not 
well taken care of. Also, the barangay is jam-packed, there are houses on top of houses 
and the houses are too close to each other. The materials used to construct the house are 
scrap materials and flammable. Most of the fire incidents are reported in that barangay.