Almost 3 years have passed since Metro Manila has last suffered from intense rain and flooding brought about the typhoon Ondoy. For those of us who have managed to have lived through that disaster, we have hoped that a disaster of such proportion would not happen again in our lifetime at least. But here we are at this point time, having managed again to live through another similar disaster, this time brought about not by a typhoon but by some strong monsoon storm that has ravaged not only Metro Manila but other parts of Luzon as well. It is a scene that has become too eerily familiar to us now:…