Storm hits the country.
A lot of you must have heard of the storm that hit the Philippines yesterday. A month's worth of rainfall in six hours, record breaking in the past forty years, etc etc. People camping out on their roofs because of how high the water was. This country needs a fucking break. I'm half hoping there'll be work tomorrow, because that would mean that things are getting back to normal, but the city's a mess. Asian Development Bank better help. When I go to work, I'll see if there's anything I can do, too.
If you want to help the victims, you can make donations here.
I'm okey. The situation at home yesterday morning was alarming, but completely laughable compared to the shit everyone else in the lower areas experienced, are experiencing. Let me tell you, though!
So imagine all of that water...
Getting into our backyard like this. There was a huge cracking sound, the maids started screaming, and then we found out that the fence broke from the weight and then the water went in. The water was higher before that picture, but I was busy wading outside and grabbing our things from floating with the current.
This is the usual view of the backyard And this is the usual view of the tank area.
It all went here to the front. Look: Day after aka back to normal mode. (Also my other dog.)
Very little water got into our house because of these blockades, although there was water from the back that got in because this blockade leaked. We just did our best to stop the water from reaching the living room at this point. It was actually funny because my mom and I were doing heavy work outside, and all the men of the house were inside... and... mopping.
My mom's garden. Nothing of it is left now but the trees. You see those pots? There used to be a lot of them, but now only the big ones are left. Actually, when the worst of the water hit, that water was at least a foot higher and the current was motherfucking strong. It literally blasted open the gate on that side (we have two sets). I tried to retrieve some stuff from it, but we really couldn't anymore.
And then more stuff of the day after:
Our water motor pump thing. It's not broken, I think. We need to get it a better house.
This is the fence that broke. Because the water was too heavy for it already. My mom was telling me while we were wading through the current to get the floating stuff out of the way that now is a bad time for additional expenses, what with my dad's surgery coming up and all, but I was just glad that it wasn't a part of our HOUSE that broke.
The second set of gates are at the left. All that rubble used to be in my mom's garden. We still haven't cleaned it up. Yesterday noon, you wouldn't have been able to see any of that grass at all.
I hope we won't see shit like this happen again, but the weather's become more and more fucked up through the years. On my end, I've never seen flood this high in our area before.
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Underpass in Makati. This is already the next day, iirc.
Some part of Manila.
If you want to help the victims, you can make donations here.
I'm okey. The situation at home yesterday morning was alarming, but completely laughable compared to the shit everyone else in the lower areas experienced, are experiencing. Let me tell you, though!
So imagine all of that water...
Getting into our backyard like this. There was a huge cracking sound, the maids started screaming, and then we found out that the fence broke from the weight and then the water went in. The water was higher before that picture, but I was busy wading outside and grabbing our things from floating with the current.
This is the usual view of the backyard And this is the usual view of the tank area.
It all went here to the front. Look: Day after aka back to normal mode. (Also my other dog.)
Very little water got into our house because of these blockades, although there was water from the back that got in because this blockade leaked. We just did our best to stop the water from reaching the living room at this point. It was actually funny because my mom and I were doing heavy work outside, and all the men of the house were inside... and... mopping.
My mom's garden. Nothing of it is left now but the trees. You see those pots? There used to be a lot of them, but now only the big ones are left. Actually, when the worst of the water hit, that water was at least a foot higher and the current was motherfucking strong. It literally blasted open the gate on that side (we have two sets). I tried to retrieve some stuff from it, but we really couldn't anymore.
And then more stuff of the day after:
Our water motor pump thing. It's not broken, I think. We need to get it a better house.
This is the fence that broke. Because the water was too heavy for it already. My mom was telling me while we were wading through the current to get the floating stuff out of the way that now is a bad time for additional expenses, what with my dad's surgery coming up and all, but I was just glad that it wasn't a part of our HOUSE that broke.
The second set of gates are at the left. All that rubble used to be in my mom's garden. We still haven't cleaned it up. Yesterday noon, you wouldn't have been able to see any of that grass at all.
I hope we won't see shit like this happen again, but the weather's become more and more fucked up through the years. On my end, I've never seen flood this high in our area before.
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Underpass in Makati. This is already the next day, iirc.
Some part of Manila.