I got a call from a colleague last night about a certain conundrum that happened towards their end of day. She even, grudgingly, went back to the office to answer to some clarifications from the clueless but rather panicked management. Since I'm in the business of trades, certain closure of major markets where our funds are being dealt, should be published on our part to reflect proper settlement dates and trade information. I wouldn't bore you with the details, but an emergency inactivity of a major stock house spells a bit of a downstream change on our part. As the issue occurred, I double checked and verified there are known holidays that I know of yesterday, but as per news, the stock exchange in New York was on an emergency shut down.
We were not prepared for the Sandy storm that would hit the greater parts of the US. And surely I don't think the citizens there were expecting something huge as this and during Halloween at that. According to reports, it's one of the biggest storms to date, a once-in-a-lifetime kind of storm. New York became a ghost town some reported. It's kind of scary because come to think of it, almost all armageddon plots in movies usually happen in New York.
Living in the Philippines where the citizens are used to countless storms throughout the year with immense flooding, it's kind of discomforting to see other more modern and developed countries suffer almost the same effects that we endure when it comes to storms. For sure, Philippines had always topped the natural calamity headlines when it comes to storms and flooding because thanks to our irrigation system, poor infrastructures, pollution and with our geographical location, we somehow have an idea why we get the worse and as expert survivors our shock level has gone a bit higher. But whenever I see developed countries emerged in floods, I get shudders because it really must be that bad.
Here are sample pictures taken from TIME.COM and NYTIMES. It's a part of New York and Brooklyn.
We were not prepared for the Sandy storm that would hit the greater parts of the US. And surely I don't think the citizens there were expecting something huge as this and during Halloween at that. According to reports, it's one of the biggest storms to date, a once-in-a-lifetime kind of storm. New York became a ghost town some reported. It's kind of scary because come to think of it, almost all armageddon plots in movies usually happen in New York.
Living in the Philippines where the citizens are used to countless storms throughout the year with immense flooding, it's kind of discomforting to see other more modern and developed countries suffer almost the same effects that we endure when it comes to storms. For sure, Philippines had always topped the natural calamity headlines when it comes to storms and flooding because thanks to our irrigation system, poor infrastructures, pollution and with our geographical location, we somehow have an idea why we get the worse and as expert survivors our shock level has gone a bit higher. But whenever I see developed countries emerged in floods, I get shudders because it really must be that bad.
Here are sample pictures taken from TIME.COM and NYTIMES. It's a part of New York and Brooklyn.
Seeing those pictures and hearing the news makes me shiver. Bottom line, even if I'm from the Philippines, I would never get used to really nasty natural calamities such as this. Natural calamities that make the world stop make me realize how powerless and puny humans are when nature goes amok.
I have an aunt who lives in New York and I just found out that they are being evacuated. Evacuation in New York? That's really something.
It's unfortunate but in calamities like this, we could only prepare so much and end up waiting for the worse to end. Time to pray for those out there, that's the best we could do at this point.
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