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Ondoy – the Killer Typhoon chapter 2
From that time, I was so worried. I tried to call Gina’s cellphone but she didn’t answer, then called Vangie’s (neighbor) number and she confirmed me that the water level inside the house reached 3 feet already. But they managed to save some of our appliances like the component, bell tv and the computer. Then the rest are submerged in muddy water. I wanted to go home but can’t. First because I am watching my brother and secondly there’s no more means of transporation because the surrounding area was already flooded. There’s nothing I can do but PRAY…
Then suddenly, I heard noises outside the room knowing that residents in the area started to evacuate in the hospital. The Management of the hospital seemed to be hospitable enough to welcome all the evacuees. I salute them for that! I went out of the hospital and saw with my very own eyes the water from the river (brownish in color) were rushing up to J.P. Rizal St. where the hospital stands. In a few more minutes, the water got inside the institution. The evacuees went up to the second floor where my brother was. So can you imagine how the patients felt with the incident? Too bad huh?
At around 6 o’clock in the evening, the electricity went off. Ahhh can you picture what’s the scene that night? Dark, hot, noises and the evacuees are in and out of the room because they are using the room’s toilet. I went down to the ground floor and discovered that the water is already upto the knee level and luckily it stopped there. I went back to the room, laid my back at the bottom side of the bed and thought… This would be the longest night of my life…
to be continued…
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…
