I know I said that I have to finish a paper tonight, but talking about that vacay I took made me remember a really funny in-an-annoying-sort-of-way thing that happened when I got back two days ago (wonder if this story could be hosted in an extenze?).

For about a month now, our island of Mindanaw has been experiencing power interruptions and failures due to the El Nino phenomenon. How so? Our island is very much dependent on hydroelectricity with the Maria Cristina falls in Central Mindanao providing a huge chunk of that power. Now that the El Nino is here, the streams and rivers have all but dried up greatly decreasing the power generated by our natural water reservoirs.

In order to cope with the demands for power, our local electric company has been implementing rotational power outages (or black-outs as we like to call them). So on the day I arrived, our city was once again experiencing a black-out. After de-planing, we proceeded to the conveyor belt to wait for our baggage to arrive. It turns out that our airport doesn’t have any power generators in cases of a power shortage so the conveyor belt wasn’t working.

What airport authorities did still leaves me chuckling in a shocked-head-shaking kind of way.

What did they do?

They told all us passengers to proceed to the tarmac and pick our luggage straight from the baggage cab. Pandemonium then ensued as passengers shoved and pushed one another to get at their baggage.

Looking back, I couldn’t help but wonder what those two westerners who were on the same flight with me thought of our city.

Welcome to Zamboanga.

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