Facebook Bayanihan

"RP Appeal to those who have access to 4x4 or flatbed trucks for rescue. Please send vehicles to Greenhills Shopping Center in front of Unimart Grocery to await deployment strategy. Call or text 09209072902 to confirm your pledge. Thank you. Please repost and tweet."
This call for help has been reposted more than ten times in 30 minutes on Facebook. While it is not clear who is convening rescuers what is clear is the intention to gather as much helping hands as necessary to respond to the overwhelming calls for help from the hundreds of people affected by Typhoon Ondoy.
Typhoon Ondoy struck us while the whole metro was sleeping and continues to hit Luzon, currently majority of the streets in Metro Manila and nearby areas are flooded and not passable. Cristine Reyes was seen on top of her roof stranded just like the rest of the people. Hundreds, perhaps thousands are affected but cannot be rescued by teams of NDCC because there are just way too many people to rescue and so little help to apportion.
This initiative is bayanihan in its 2009 form. People convening, and pooling resources together to help others who are in need. But in todays world it is difficult to reach other people and ask for help if we were to rely on personal relationships and face to face encounters. Lucky for us we are so comfortable living in a digital world that we get to communicate our needs and resources to others in a snap of a finger. I asked one friend who posted what it was about and she said she actually didn’t know, she was just reposting. While what is needed is for us to volunteer resources such as 4WDs , a simple post and tweet makes us part of the bayanihan.
Please post the quoted message in your facebook wall or tweet it or put it in you YM status message.