i was just preoccupied for the last couple of weeks and blogging was not on the top of my list back then... for the last month a couple of typhoons hit our country but the worst that could happen was Typhoon "Ondoy" (try googling Ondoy and you will see a couple of hits) anyway, the typhoon was not that strong, i believe it was categorized as signal number 2. Typhoons normally hit the country since we are a tropical country and near the equator but then again, signal no. 2 typhoons were not something you should be afraid of. we have had signal no. 4 so a no. 2 should not be something to worry about..
but something must have triggered the flooding all over the country. i have heard news that reservoir waters were released to prevent the breakage of the reservoir which added to the flood in most of the parts of the country... i have personally experienced the flooding..i'll be attaching pictures taken..
This was one picture taken.. you can see the very heavy traffic, actually, cars are not moving and you can see people stranded and walking and trying to go home.. luckily, i did not go out of the house..
This other photo, you can see that the water is continuously rising and is already at waist high of people and the bus is stranded in the middle of nowhere and the people there are already panicky due to the fact that they will be stranded inside the bus and they of course are worried about their family and houses...
in another picture, you will see that cars are already floating in the flood.. a lot of cars were destroyed during the typhoon...
even i myself experienced the extreme and heavy flooding.. it was friday night and i was rushed to the hospital and had a dextrose stuck in my hands due to hyperventilation after being rested and given a couple of meds doctors advised me that I could go home and take my rest there and do not engage in strenuous activities for the following day. saturday is my school day so i've decided when i woke up saturday morning that i will not be going to school because first the doctor told me not to and second it was already flooded in our area, waist length to be exact. so i've called up our school and asked to be excused for the class since i really can't make it but upon calling the school administrator said that classes are suspended due to the heavy rains and floods.. so i called up a few friends who i know are at school and asked them how they are doing.. i am attaching pictures of our school in flood.
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i was kind of worried for my friends who happened to be stranded in school and i believe they spent 28hours inside the school, trapped, hungry, cold, thirsty, wet and sleepless... i pity what had happened to them but i also experienced tremendous flooding inside our home...
though i was advised by my doctor to avoid strenuous work and activity i had no choice but to get up from bed and help in bringing all our appliances from downstairs to the other vacant room at the second floor but sadly, the flood was uncontrollable.. in a matter of 3 hours, flood was already in our second floor and was still rising up, all our appliances, including the refrigerator was flooded and we have no other food...we have to let the appliances be flooded since if we bring those stuff up into our third floor we will have no space where we can sleep...
but sleep was not coming to me,.... we kept on prayer for the rain to stop and the water to keep from rising because one more hour of continuous raining would leave us stranded inside the house which even might cause our death..
fear crept up to my spine and we kept on praying for the winds and storm to calm.. at around 2am, sunday, rain stopped and the flood was subsiding.. upon waking up at around 7am.. i was a bit remorse and happy at the same time.. sad because all of our appliances were flooded and was not functioning anymore, because all my book collections which was nearly a hundred was also soaked in flood and mud, because almost all my clothes were muddy and i have nothing to wear except if i will buy new sets of clothes, sad because we have no food and food at the moment was so scarce that we have to go at about 8kilometers before we can buy food because the nearest mall in our area was also flooded and most of the people were panic buying and had to get lots of food,...
but you know what i have learned after this? i was very happy and relieved after the storm has passed because i know, during the hardest and toughest moments of our lives, GOD is there to help us, to guide us, to lend a hand and HE alone can save us.. HE heard all our prayers and stopped the flooding and the storm.. i know it was NOT HIS FAULT why it rained so hard, i know that HE wants us to keep our faith in HIM during the toughest time of our lives because it is only then that we know we can be safe...
THANK GOD!! PRAISE BE TO HIM!!!!
I'm glad you're ok.
ReplyDeletewe are kind of ok.. there are people here who are homeless because their houses were washed away by the flood...
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