Today, November 7, 2010, was a day when the heaven cried a river of tears. I’m not exaggerating. It actually did. Not that a celebrity superstar or a relative of mine died today. It was just that, uhm, we were FLOODED, literally!
At first, the rain seemed to be just a normal heavy rain. Heavy rains in our place don’t usually cause floods. The rains may pour humongous volume of water but the floods they normally create are only small floods enough for the canals to hold.
But today, Sunday, was a different story.
The rain this afternoon wasn’t the first time we experienced a notably heavy rain. However, scary as this may sound, it was our first time to see the floodwater creep in inside our house. Yeah, you read that right! The flood has actually reached the ground floor (murag pila ka storey among balay!haha!) of our house despite its elevation from the ground.
When the floodwater started to flow in inside our house, we immediately carried the must-not-get-wet things from the floor and placed them on the tables and chairs. Fortunately, the waters did not reach the bedrooms and the kitchen. Only our living room was hit by the catastrophe (OA!).
Meanwhile, outside our house was a ‘sea’ of brown, murky water. Almost everything was covered with the out-of-nowhere gush of floodwater, reminding me of some scenes I usually see on TV everytime a typhoon strikes Luzon, submerging the island in flood. And in that very moment, I could hardly distinguish imagination from reality.
Drama aside, I was also able to take pictures of the flood that struck our house, the casualties it left us with, as well as the horrid aftermath of the tragedy.
At first, the rain seemed to be just a normal heavy rain. Heavy rains in our place don’t usually cause floods. The rains may pour humongous volume of water but the floods they normally create are only small floods enough for the canals to hold.
But today, Sunday, was a different story.
The rain this afternoon wasn’t the first time we experienced a notably heavy rain. However, scary as this may sound, it was our first time to see the floodwater creep in inside our house. Yeah, you read that right! The flood has actually reached the ground floor (murag pila ka storey among balay!haha!) of our house despite its elevation from the ground.
When the floodwater started to flow in inside our house, we immediately carried the must-not-get-wet things from the floor and placed them on the tables and chairs. Fortunately, the waters did not reach the bedrooms and the kitchen. Only our living room was hit by the catastrophe (OA!).
Meanwhile, outside our house was a ‘sea’ of brown, murky water. Almost everything was covered with the out-of-nowhere gush of floodwater, reminding me of some scenes I usually see on TV everytime a typhoon strikes Luzon, submerging the island in flood. And in that very moment, I could hardly distinguish imagination from reality.
Drama aside, I was also able to take pictures of the flood that struck our house, the casualties it left us with, as well as the horrid aftermath of the tragedy.
Sa kasagsagan ng pagbaha
Ang kalunos-lunos na aftermath
-Aba! Ngisi2x pa jud!! wuhaha!
-Mud and stones piled up in our yards
-Asa na ang pares aning slipper nga isa? LOL!
-Aba! Ngisi2x pa jud!! wuhaha!
-Mud and stones piled up in our yards
-Asa na ang pares aning slipper nga isa? LOL!
:)
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