My Ondoy Experience...

I know its been exactly 3 weeks today, but I still wanna share my adventure :) so here it goes...

I never thought I'd be experiencing mother nature's wrath this bad ever in my life... 10 long years ago was when my family first experienced flooding inside our house because of typhoon "Olga" in August 1, 1999. It is the same typhoon that made the Cherry Hill Subdivision fall. Flood from the street went in and and I was soaked in flood that reached my crotch from 7pm to 11am the next day... still it was not a match to what typhoon Ondoy brought to us, this time flood inside the house was up to my chest and I was soaked from 8am to 4pm the next day.

I'm just very glad my family is alive as well as my pets. My sisters in Makati took us to their place and gave us decent shelter for our whole family. The house was just a studio type condominium, and took all of us in... me, my parents 3 cats and a dog. We were cramped up but we were dry and comfortable.

here are just random details of what happened that night. I might not be able to remember all of it so I'm just going to leave you with pictures (I took almost at the peak of the flooding) after the acknowledgments.

• Pets are in the 2nd level of our double deck safe and sound.
• Mom and Nanay Thelma were at the back of our house where it was elevated.
• Dad sat on our aquarium stand and slept the night away.
• I was all over the place making sure everyone is safe.
• I took some pictures using my first digital camera and it too was destroyed by the flood.
• All my watercolor paintings were destroyed.
• Took pictures again using my prosumer and put it in a higher place right after.
• The next day,my boss went to pass by our house to check us out and brought food and clean clothes.
• A friend from the Philippine Animal Welfare Society also visited and gave us some food.
• Sisters came, brought us food and forced us to evacuate in their house.

FACT...

"3 days before the typhoon, I was going to write a letter to my parents and sisters, asking them to clean the house for my birthday... throw or give away the piles of old clothes taking over the WHOLE HOUSE!!! now, there is SPACE!!! nothing left after the flood! It was just the right reason to give them away! and we gave away a whole lot TODAY! Indeed, be careful what you wish for, because I got my wish 2 months before my birthday!!!"

Special thanks to the following:

Best friends a.k.a Family: Jem and Tonki, Aissa and Migs, Triska and Toto
Ingenium Family: Dr. Sal and Father Ed, Ces,Jeng, Dada, Mina, Dolly, Ate Lyn
PAWS Family: Elsie, Jojo, Joe, Eva
PJ family: Pam, Faye,and Charles

My very own Family: Mom, Dad, Nanay Thelma, Valentine and Alab

Those I forgot to include in the list, my apologies, but God has the complete list of those who were able help me and my family,he will bless you forever.

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