Shaun T. Dy's Business & Economics Perspective Blog

I remembered back in 1991 when it was in November--the time when typhoons are prone to strike. Ruping was for me a really painful, traumatic experience that somehow made me scared of brownouts. In the case of Cebu--it was a blackout. It was also what led to the phenomenon called Ceboom . It was really one month of a blackout and chaos was really expected. I was soon scared of typhoons and brownouts that followed. It didn't help that I had to deal with a Filipino nanny who kept telling ghost stories in the dark, thinking that they were funny. I was only six years old yet the memory can still be there. I had an infant baby sister at that time. Everything was just downright scary especially at night. We couldn't charge our emergency lamps because there was no electricity. It was a total disaster. My memory was bleak though it seemed to relive during Odette late last year. It was three weeks without electricity. We were fortunate to eventually get a generator though we operated at