Saturday, after I logged off from my work laptop I tried to take a nap for a few minutes as the weather was good for being lazy.
It is cold, the air conditioner was off the whole night and the wind started to blow in our house. It was not strong the night before, it is enough to keep your fans off the whole period.
After getting a power nap for around 30 minutes I asked April if she was going to do the laundry. She said yes, however since rain starts to pour, she's not sure on where we will let our clothes hang to dry.
An indoor clothesline isn't an option for us, since we have two cats running and jumping everywhere that causing chaos in our home. Thus we decided to postpone it in the meantime, and wait for the weather to be better.
I heated the leftover food from the night's work and we proceeded on eating our breakfast. A few minutes after, the lights are flickering and after some seconds everything was turned off. Power was out and heavy rain with strong winds began to howl.
We finished our breakfast and told April to check and see if there are news available where we can tune in. I forgot to load my prepaid phone with data plans as I solely rely on the internet service that we had. Globe, Smart, and Dito, the 3 leading mobile network providers are unavailable. It seems that their towers are affected too.
I received a text message from MERALCO saying that there's a power interruption and they are not sure when it will be fixed. I am anticipating that the power interruption will be at least more than 12 hours as we are already in the eye of the storm.
Watchful for what will happen next I checked the outside of our home. Trees are still intact, and no flooding as of the moment. On the other side in my parent's house, I am expecting a huge flood already and my siblings already moved their items to the 2nd floor of our house. Later I confirmed that happened, Biñan is still flooded and there are multiple people who are waiting for relief operations from the government.
In the afternoon, April and I talked about where should we put our equipment as I saw that the water coming from the mountain started to fall down I am noticing that the backyard's full of rainwater already, and around two to three inches it will enter our premises. She mentioned that she doesn't know as well and I just nodded let's see what will happen next.
We decided to sleep early that night. With no electricity and wifi, there's nothing to do. Good thing we still have some small candles in our house that I bought previously as if there are none we will have a hard time on walking as the house was dark already.
When the rain stopped pouring the day after, and power was returned I tried to check our surroundings a lot of fallen trees and a small flood remains.
I told April that I would also go to the market to buy some supplies since our home was quite dirty due to the rain. The water supply was cut off and when it got restored, sand started to pour for more than an hour.
What did I learn from this experience?
I am used to such weather conditions back then but I become complacent.
I was not prepared as the supplies that we had in our home is just enough to keep us okay that day. The idea, that I had left our home and I will not experience such bad weather is a scam, and being a father now I should have known better and been prepared for whatever happened. I always forget about buying some tools such as hammers, nails, screws extra lighting, etc. which now I realized is an important asset as well.
So always be prepared and make sure that you have available stuff around.
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Grabe ang lakas talaga ni Paeng kuya no? Dito din samin kahit signal no 1 lang eh yung hangin talaga nakakaputol ng sanga ng mga puno. Buti nalang naputol na mga sanga nung puno dito samin and I hope jan din sainyo para hindi maka aksidente sa tuwing may bagyo.
Yan din po ang narealized ko nung nagbabagyo. Wala akong powerbank para kapag may bagyo sana makapag charge cp ko at makanuod ng balita at maging alerto padin kahit walang kuryente. Jusko. Tsaka yung rechargable lights or yung fan nalang na may ilaw para din may magamit pang ilaw kapag walang kuryente. 🤧 hayyy... buti safe kayong lahat ng Family mo kuya! Ingat!
Nako ito din wala nadin me powerbank! Back then meron kami tig-isa nung nag o-office pa pero now since di na naalis ng bahay wala na pake.
Fans and Lights ito ang next, we are planning na sana magkaroon ng budget to buy some solar panel para in case of emergency talaga we have some spare. Tignan natin, torn parin ako na bumili ng laptop hahah pero pag ganito parang kailangan unahin muna ang mga bagay bagay.
Nag #3 kami nung hapon, grabe kahit anong signal pa yan kakatakot din. Iba ang takot pag magulang ka na at may ini-intindi ka nang pamilya. Kung nung ako ay bata pa, for sure sa bahang yan namangka na ako at rumaket dami ang naglilikasan.
It doesn't really feel good whenever a typhoon is coming and especially when I know that our province will be severely affected. Like this previous typhoon, Paeng made some parts of Cavite really experience flash floods and high ones. Yeah, in times before the typhoon, stocks are really important. !PIZZA
Indeed Denny, compared to Laguna Cavite is a good place to settle-in as the location is higher compared to us. I remember each time that we will have massive flood in our area even if it isn't raining the main reason is Cavite's been flooded and the water is being sent over to Laguna de Bay.
We experienced once that the water came in our house due to heavy flood, I really felt disappointed that time but after knowing and seeing that many people were suffering because of flood napasabi ako sa sarili, thankful parin dapat ako kasi yun lang ang nangyari.
Good thing you and your family is safe @tpkidkai. Next time you really need to prepare some things that is really needed.
Kaya nga minsan nakaka frustrate anu each time that it happened and it is beyond our control na talaga.
Thanks Jen for the thoughts about us it is appreciated. Okay naman kami almost back to normal na after the cleaning.
Thank God we are all safe🙏♥️
Oo nga Wren- kayo kamusta naman di ba kayo binaha?
Okay lang naman po..binaha din sa area namin pero d naman umablt sa bahay.
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I'm glad you and your family is safe and well!
Sorry you had such bad weather conditions!
I think we all need to learn the lesson of being prepared. It could be a bad Winter ahead for all of us, with everything going on in the world. We'll all do better if we prepare NOW!
Wishing you all the best! :)
PH almost look like my Bangladesh. We also experience natural disasters like flood, tournedo and so on. Sorry to see this happen their too!
Dapat talaga lagi tayong maging handa bago at pagdating ng sakuna para maiwasan ang anumang aberya. Thank God naman po at okay kayo lahat dyan po.
OO Ren, nako kaya kayo dyan never be complacent on stuff mag handa talaga, mahirap na di natin masbi ang panahon.
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