During my recent travel to Zamboanga City, a landslide happen along the way, part of the national highway on Barangay Sangali, Zamboanga City, gave in to the ravishing fury of nature, landslide, leaving us stranded for several hours. This incident tells a different story though, most of the landslide I knew was cause by a soil sliding from a nearby slopes and covering the road making it impassable to vehicles but this incident is different, the road of about 50 feet long (rough estimate) slides down, lowering it a few feet from the original level.
The main reason of the collapse was the continues rain hovering the area for days. There was not enough trees to adsorb the waters poured in the soil thus softening it affecting the nearby cemented road particularly beneath it. With a soothened road, being heavily used by fully loaded trucked and all types of transportation vehicles and being the only way to access Zamboanga City by land, landslide is inevitable. The road was in existence for decades already, and nobody expect it to bug down. It just show how things change through time, permanent is nothing but a word, something has to gave in as the effect of a cause. Its the law of nature.
Somehow, everyone was thankful because nobody was hurt in the incident. A bliss for the last bus loaded with passengers to pass by before the road collapse. And for us, waiting for hours before given a signal to walk across, all is worth ed because we were able to witness breathtaking scenery that leaves us awe for hours.
2 days after, vehicles can now pass by the area, they curved a mountain slope beside the road and made a one way lane but still impassable to heavy loaded trucks. Maybe what they can do right now is to make a bridge across the collapse road or fill it up with stones to level it up again.
Moral lesson of the story? Don't underestimate mother nature, we should listen when she speaks, and learn from pass mistakes.
Aug 5, 2008
Nature Fights Back
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