Category: Safety

Our first day in Banaue Rice Terraces took us to Travellers Inn in the remote, under construction dangerous roads by the cliff. Breath taking place, but there is the very real risk of being stranded in case of landslides. We conversed with a jeep driver who turned out to...

We cut short our stay at the Travellers Inn in Hapao. The road is wet, muddy, unfinished, narrow. We decided to go back to Banaue and just stay there overnight. Found out later on that our planned trip to Sagada will now have to be cancelled due to a...

Fukushima, Japan – The Japanese government has issued the evacuation order on March 12 for the residents living within the 20 kilometer radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Since then, residents have left their homes, and the “no man land” has been out of touch with the...

Ms K had a close brush with a suspected Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA). She went to her doctor for a regular checkup and got scared out of her wits with a suspected Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA). Doctor told her if she were in a hospital and that were diagnosed,...

Japan’s Fukushima disaster is like a bad long script. Everything that can go wrong will go wrong and the worst case scenarios are miniscule compared to reality. The government spokesperson here is all torn up, crying as he reads the report. The report is just bad, very, very, very...

Comet ELEnin update: Did you notice that the name for this comet by chance is ELEnin where ELE stands for Extinction Level Event? Sounds like the name used for this comet is trying to tell us something. This is it ELE, prepare or be doomed. I’ll bite. My family...

Fairewinds Associates Gunderson says what is happening in the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant has redefined the worst case scenarios for nuclear power plants. Update on Fukushima: Discussion of High Level Radiation Releases and the Previous “Worse Case Senario” Planned for by The Indust from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. Gundersen...