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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon 
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Rain, rain, go away... It rained the whole day yesterday.
I went out of the office at around 4:30PM yesterday and was really surprised that it was raining hard. I didn't know how hard it had been going until I saw lots of people stranded outside the mall because of lack of public transportation like jeepneys and buses because there were floods almost everywhere. Luckily, I was able to get ride on a public (or possible a colorum) FX. The seats were soaked wet, apparently because the people who rode the vehicle some hours prior were also soaked wet due to the heavy rain. I was able to get home safely. And there was no flood or power interruption or anything that would make me really mad here at home. There was no water, though, but that came back early this morning. There was nothing on TV but news about typhoon Ondoy (that's the name of the typhoon). I didn't know that Bulacan (that's where I live) was under typhoon signal #2, which means bad but not really bad. There was no flood here, because this part of Bulacan is situated maybe about a hundred feet above sea level and this place is nowhere near any body of water, so it's really pretty safe here. But some other places are not as lucky, like most of Metro Manila, which, if I remember correctly, is below sea level and naturally a swamp or a floodplain so flooding is a norm whenever there is a storm and the like. And yes, there was flood there, in some areas the water would be 5 feet deep. Lots of people had to climb on top of the roof of their houses and wait for rescue as they brave the rain and the cold of the night. This morning, I found out that more than 50 people have already died and thousands of families displaced by the floods. I feel sorry for them and at the same time thankful that my family is safe and my friends and their family are also safe. I don't pray much but I hope that things will become much better in the coming days.
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