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EVERY major flood in Metro Manila now feels like a rerun: the same submerged roads, the same stranded commuters, the same families carrying soaked belongings out of knee-deep water, and the same officials promising that next time will be different. Since Typhoon Ondoy in 2009, four administrations have vowed to make the capital safer. Yet each serious downpour still exposes a city that has learned too little and paid too much.