⚔️ Sierra Madre Mountains: A Double-Edged Sword
The Sierra Madre is Luzon’s natural shield, breaking the winds of Pacific typhoons before they devastate inland towns.
Yet this same barrier can also turn into a floodmaker. When storms strike, its slopes trap huge volumes of rain that rush downstream into the Cagayan and Pampanga river basins.
Without trees to absorb and slow the flow, floods surge faster and stronger.
The Sierra Madre protects us from the wind’s wrath, but neglecting its forests turns protection into peril. It’s a double-edged sword, one edge saves, the other cuts.
Bottom line: It’s not the mountain that betrays us, it’s our neglect of it.
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