Typhoon watching can be tourism attraction NOT

Dear insansapinas,

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For days now, the East is soaked due to downpour brought by Hurricane (typhoon for you unlearned Tagalog speaking kababayans).

Buti na lang cancelled yong doctor's appointment ko.

Here, where even a not so heavy rain is considered a threat to safety due to flashflood it may bring or flooding due to overflowing of creek, having typhoon is not at all COOL. Here, where storm watch and storm alerts are livestreamed to warn people NOT TO ATTEMPT DRIVING even in  shallow-looking pool of water, people stayed indoors. And oh avoid staying near windows because lightning may strike once.  YES VIRGINIA, someone is going to INFORM you   that small pool of water when raining is dangerous, that the car driver in the Philippines whose car floated in a body of water because nobody informed him would have no cause to complain.

So hurricane or typhoon brings disaster and looking at it as attraction reminds me to feed my brain with brain food. Di abot ng level ng aking intelligence. (meron va?) Di ko GETZ ang sinabi ng bagong Tourism secretary: 

Typhoon watching can be tourism attraction - Jimenez

What tourists is he going to attract to watch the typhoon? Do people enjoy watching people's misery or nature's wrath.

One thing about tourists is they would avoid a place where there are expected typhoons  because the flights' schedules could become erratic.

They do not want to be stranded.

Granting that there are tourists who delight themselves watching dirty flood water, flying billboards, surging ocean waves that may pose danger in sea transportation, does the DoT include this in their promotion. "See Philippines battered by typhoon."

 Ngayon lang ako makakita niyan. Lalo na ang mga Kano na ayaw makita yong mga kabaong na naglutang noong Katrina sa New Orleans, yong mga bahay na binubunot ng mga tornadoes at ang mga bahay na lumulutang sa agos, they could not bear to watch these pictures of horror. 

Hindi na ako kumibo nang mabasa ko na para lang raw Chickenjoy ang pagbenta ng tourism sa Pilipinas, in short, it meant, chicken feet ehek, chicken feed lang.hmmmm

But the target market for chicken joy are Filipinos. Does it mean, he is only targeting local tourists?

No, Virginia, the 'Mericans still preferred the KFC and other chicken fast food. if we are going to take it literally. i.e. that the  Jolibee is patronized by our fellow Americans, we're wrong. No honey, the Jolibee in California has to adopt its recipe to the different target market which ask us the question why are our spaghettis or pasta sweet?

So welcome tourists and watch our typhoon. It is one of our tourist attractions. blech.

Pinaysaamerika