from Cagayan de Oro City

[crysta0917]

This post came a little too late. Pardon me for being stuck in Dumaguete and Cebu while all these were going on.

I got home today by Transasia and felt my heart break into pieces upon seeing a part of what Sendong and the accompanying flash flood has destroyed on our way home from the port. I saw evacuation centers nearby like the Macasandig

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Daijobou!

[klushdee]

Crystal-chan I'm fine. I live in Pala-o, its in the highland so we were not affected. But I felt sorry for my co-teachers who were victims of the flash flood since their homes were located near the river... All we could do is pray and extend our help in any possible way. I'm glad your family is safe.

Re: Daijobou!

[crysta0917]

ah...good to hear~ I'm relieved you and your family are safe as well.

yes, there were a lot of lives lost especially those that were hit by the logs and the water and mud and all. Those places that were hard hit were especially heartbreaking to look at.

Just because I might've gained sanity at 1 a.m. in the morning, I'm set to help out in anyway I can the rest of the week as well. (i.e. looking through clothes I can donate through Akbay and perhaps through XU from back here among others). I might just be a donor but I hope to be able to help even just a little. My parents are already doing a lot of honorable things so I might as well follow suit although I'm not affiliated with anything other than being an ex-editor/writer for the Crusader Pub. O.O

Life goes on, I figure. So why not do a little bit of something? All I've done recently is info dissemination and social networking through twitter so I never really felt accomplished with what I did. =.=U

[tsubameongaku]

Hey, Kris! I'm fine and my family is too. Just very heartbroken and drained. Not really feeling very 'Hohoho' either. Mimi is alright too. Her family wasn't affected.

I am keeping myself informed too. 1002 dead bodies found now. I am depressing myself ...

[crysta0917]

I read your entry. And it's good to hear you're alright and the family, too and of course, Mimi and her family. We're really lucky, ne?

I'm still worried for others like a friend in Kauswagan who doesn't reply to my tweets much and a few others I might have known in passing.

The places that got affected are so close to home here, to be honest. You can only imagine what it looks like in the elementary school and the covered courts in front of Corpus Christi. My dad and his team has been reaching out to those in Biasong and Kalakala, though, so all is good.

That death toll is within Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, ne? It's a massive. I read on the Crusader Pub's page there was an MBA 1 in XU who died which is just sad. TT^TT And there were some faculty/staff members, too. As of yesterday, I learned there were 61 bodies in Kimaya. My uncle update my mother on it.

This is really heartbreaking. I suppose nature has its ways these days. :/