Ondoy – the Killer Typhoon chapter 1
After over a month now, this is the only time that I’m gonna write about the killer typhoon Ondoy. It was September 26, 2009 morning at around 5:30 a.m. when I received a text from my sister-in-law asking me to take over her from watching my brother who was confined at Victoria’s Hospital in Marikina. Since the weather is calm and no trace that it would be a rainy day, I rushed to the hospital equipped with two MSI netbooks (my brother’s and mine) since I know I’ll be there for the whole day.
At around 9 o’clock in the morning, the rain started to pour. But it didn’t give anyone of us in the hospital worry that it would become a disaster since the rain is not that hard and there’s no gusty wind. At around one in the afternoon, I received a text from my cousin Amy telling me to go home because according to her our house is already submerged in flood. I replied with “Am I the one you are texting? It might be a mis send” because for the entire 6 years of living in Cainta Greenpark, Rizal there were never an instance of flood in my area. She replied back saying…. “Yes it’s you who I am texting, Gina and Sean (househelp and my son) already evacuated to your neighbor “, who happened to have a 2-storey house…
to be continued…