After the onslaught of the two Typhoons in Tino and Uwan came a very important house part, the roof.
Why roofs matters? For one it is a shelter on top of our heads.
The Philippines experiences around 20 typhoons per year, making durable roofing materials essential for lasting protection. While it’s true that the right choice can protect your home and lower your maintenance expenses, there are more reasons why roof material matters in shaping your property’s worth.
When a natural disaster strikes, it can cause great damage to homes and buildings. One of the most important parts of a house that needs to be prepared for such events is the roof. A strong and reliable roof can protect your family and belongings from dangerous weather conditions.
Roofs are our first line of protection from rains, hale and snow. In the Philippines, roofs are symbolic and concrete, a durable means to help our people survive. And survive they did , holding unto and embracing on all fours on the roof of their houses, in Cebu and Catanduanes, elsewhere.
And that, many of our people, under the lashing of the Super Typhoon cling to it and save them from being strewn and carried into the Open Sea, for them the roof was the superhero.
Yet, again, the roof is now also a symbol of how high the tide of neglect. How formidable the force of systemic corruption that we cannot be safe inside our homes, because floods will engulf and devour the hapless one. We are up to the roof with thievery that its demoralizing to pay our taxes nowadays.
Every rooftop is a reminder of the possibility that come floods and high water, it’s a sanctuary, a safe haven. It is also a reminder, how buried we are with the quagmire and entanglement of hogwash and corruption, that its is not knee-deep, neck deep, its nearly over and through the roof.
