N.D.R.R.M.C.


Move over LGBTQ, there's also another long sounding acronym we Filipinos have to remember, NDRRMC. It's so long halfway towards the half of the acronym you suddenly enter a state of denial whether the next letters are still correct. It's as long as your BDO pin yet somehow this is harder to remember. It's mouthful. It stands for National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council. OMG there's an "and"! Honestly if i was in the council I would have gone with NDRRAMC and would have begun calling it "endramak". It is easier to pronounce no? But then would I have remembered what it stood for? Nope I wouldn't have.


I have already forgot the earlier name it had but it has become something one less thing we haven't protested as a nation. We just accepted it, even the silliness of the men and women who had to endure saying it out loud on live TV. Never have they become so heroic.


One of their projects is a nationwide text blast to (hopefully) all networks. Being on different networks in the office, we kind of compare when we receive those texts and it's been a wide disparity between GLOBE and SMART. It is not just one instance when we Globe users receive the alerts a day or two late. There was even one time when our Smart user officemate got an alert and simultaneously Globe users got a promo text. The priority of Globe is astonishing. If we rely on those texts for events that need extreme urgency half of us are set for doom. Imagine the press when next to your lifeless body a text comes hours later on why you should have evacuated earlier. Ooppss that suddenly become dark!


Hopefully this project of theirs improves in the near future and that it would encompass different types of risks other than the natural disasters like riots, traffic advisories etc. Would be better if we could control our location in their database for a much more personalized alert. All I know is this is a good initiative. Kudos NDRRMC!

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