Stranded
Well you might have heard about it from other Filipinos already
But our country experience a terrible flood yesterday (The 26th) So bad.. that places that are not really flooded got flooded..and not just any flood.. extreme kind oAo I tell you its so bad.. i spent more than 24 hours in our office..with nothing more than crackers and some bread till the morning... i finally am able to leave the place @ around 11am of the 27th oAo;;
So let me describe our ordeal.. atleast in my point of views
If i wasnt obliged to go to work the whole day i would have stayed home... You know.. on Saturdays i can go half days.. unfortunately since my mom left a week earlier.. i wanted to stay on her last day...that and i have to go back to the doctor... so whole day is obligatory...
So there i was ..arriving to work almost 9am..late cause of raining... but i didnt expect itd be really bad... befiore lunch time... the flood started rising oAo... well we didnt pay attention to it much at first since the place doesnt flood much non at all.. then we started listening to the news...through live stream on the internet... a village near my work place is flooded badly already oAo
Then the internet died oAo just a little after listening to news oAo;;; We tried calling the DSL company.. but.. their line is cut off... corporate support.. oAo... i managed to find news via my phone's radio... so much bad news.. then my siblings started textinfg me.. and told me outside our house the flood is waiste level..and inside our house is knee deep oAo.. then more bad news came... we found out my Office mates house is completly submerged by around 3 pm... I will post a video of the flood when i could.. I left the company cam at the office...Net didnt come back... some of the cell sites are down... at my work place.. only Smart Telecoms (im on smart) works.. the rest has no signal whatsoever. by 5 it was already so dark outside.. and the flood has risen so high... we decided to move into the Realty's main office (im at the marketing department and our office is on the ground...the realty is on the third floor)
We have no toilet in our office and we decided since the flood is rising so fast and we have no idea how high it will go up we decided to go evacuate ourselves before its too late.. we found out alot of people were stranded inside
I tell you.. the mall started smelling so bad cause of all off the mixed smells.. sweat... flood...etc...
We are slightly more comfortable than the other "refugees" that got stranded in the mall (its Sta Lucia East Grand Mall BTW) most of them slept on the floor... on the stairs.. we took the students we pick up outside our office earlier.. since it was really raining so bad and the students were starnded we gave them shelter inside our office and some coffee... when we went up we brought them along with us so they were spared from sleeping on the floor cause we have couches over there.. i manage to sleep for a few hours.. but my office mates couldnt...by 7pm the basement area were the groceries and the furniture where flooded... i knew it would be flooded since the last time i used the basement bathroom i could see flood water on the walls oAo; we managed to get some news.. since my office mate is worried about her family.. i told you.. their house is submerged.. and she has a 4 year old son with his grandmother and a sickly brother. They managed to go up a third floor of the neighbors.. they couldnt go to an evacuation center.. on of my office mates who wasnt able to go to the office due to the flooding (flooding came earlier to them) was already in the evacuation centers before lunch.. it was horrible as i remember she had a similar experience when she was still pregnant and now it happen again in an area she believed does not flood.
Some of the men in our office including our VP help some people outside cross since the flood was so harsh...only to find out later in the morning one of the people they rescued tried to cross again.. he was found dead across our street...
Whats worse.. when we thought we are safe inside from the flood... smoke started going in by 3am of the 27th... we found out there was a fire that erupted in front of the mall.. it smelt of burnt chemicals... luckily the smoke dint enter the mall that bad . because it might have suffocated everybody... but outside.. you can see its all white from smoke...
Oh by 12mn... the mall was running on generator and by morning all landlines where dead
and yeah of course.. theres still no net ahahah
*head desk* by 5am in the morning there where still flood ... and there was a nasty piece of traffic outside ... the students who we helped started saying goodbye and tried to go home albeit the flood... atleast there is no longer rain...
we waited till its about 11am when me and some of the staff decided to risk it and drive home using the company vehicle.. i had them drop me off at the train station... luckily it was now working...
it was slightly raining when i got home.. and i still is a bit... there are still some people left in our office.. i hope they can go home safely
But our country experience a terrible flood yesterday (The 26th) So bad.. that places that are not really flooded got flooded..and not just any flood.. extreme kind oAo I tell you its so bad.. i spent more than 24 hours in our office..with nothing more than crackers and some bread till the morning... i finally am able to leave the place @ around 11am of the 27th oAo;;
So let me describe our ordeal.. atleast in my point of views
If i wasnt obliged to go to work the whole day i would have stayed home... You know.. on Saturdays i can go half days.. unfortunately since my mom left a week earlier.. i wanted to stay on her last day...that and i have to go back to the doctor... so whole day is obligatory...
So there i was ..arriving to work almost 9am..late cause of raining... but i didnt expect itd be really bad... befiore lunch time... the flood started rising oAo... well we didnt pay attention to it much at first since the place doesnt flood much non at all.. then we started listening to the news...through live stream on the internet... a village near my work place is flooded badly already oAo
Then the internet died oAo just a little after listening to news oAo;;; We tried calling the DSL company.. but.. their line is cut off... corporate support.. oAo... i managed to find news via my phone's radio... so much bad news.. then my siblings started textinfg me.. and told me outside our house the flood is waiste level..and inside our house is knee deep oAo.. then more bad news came... we found out my Office mates house is completly submerged by around 3 pm... I will post a video of the flood when i could.. I left the company cam at the office...Net didnt come back... some of the cell sites are down... at my work place.. only Smart Telecoms (im on smart) works.. the rest has no signal whatsoever. by 5 it was already so dark outside.. and the flood has risen so high... we decided to move into the Realty's main office (im at the marketing department and our office is on the ground...the realty is on the third floor)
We have no toilet in our office and we decided since the flood is rising so fast and we have no idea how high it will go up we decided to go evacuate ourselves before its too late.. we found out alot of people were stranded inside
I tell you.. the mall started smelling so bad cause of all off the mixed smells.. sweat... flood...etc...
We are slightly more comfortable than the other "refugees" that got stranded in the mall (its Sta Lucia East Grand Mall BTW) most of them slept on the floor... on the stairs.. we took the students we pick up outside our office earlier.. since it was really raining so bad and the students were starnded we gave them shelter inside our office and some coffee... when we went up we brought them along with us so they were spared from sleeping on the floor cause we have couches over there.. i manage to sleep for a few hours.. but my office mates couldnt...by 7pm the basement area were the groceries and the furniture where flooded... i knew it would be flooded since the last time i used the basement bathroom i could see flood water on the walls oAo; we managed to get some news.. since my office mate is worried about her family.. i told you.. their house is submerged.. and she has a 4 year old son with his grandmother and a sickly brother. They managed to go up a third floor of the neighbors.. they couldnt go to an evacuation center.. on of my office mates who wasnt able to go to the office due to the flooding (flooding came earlier to them) was already in the evacuation centers before lunch.. it was horrible as i remember she had a similar experience when she was still pregnant and now it happen again in an area she believed does not flood.
Some of the men in our office including our VP help some people outside cross since the flood was so harsh...only to find out later in the morning one of the people they rescued tried to cross again.. he was found dead across our street...
Whats worse.. when we thought we are safe inside from the flood... smoke started going in by 3am of the 27th... we found out there was a fire that erupted in front of the mall.. it smelt of burnt chemicals... luckily the smoke dint enter the mall that bad . because it might have suffocated everybody... but outside.. you can see its all white from smoke...
Oh by 12mn... the mall was running on generator and by morning all landlines where dead
and yeah of course.. theres still no net ahahah
*head desk* by 5am in the morning there where still flood ... and there was a nasty piece of traffic outside ... the students who we helped started saying goodbye and tried to go home albeit the flood... atleast there is no longer rain...
we waited till its about 11am when me and some of the staff decided to risk it and drive home using the company vehicle.. i had them drop me off at the train station... luckily it was now working...
it was slightly raining when i got home.. and i still is a bit... there are still some people left in our office.. i hope they can go home safely