Typhoon ONDOY
September 26, 2009, Saturday.
Typhoon Ondoy hit Central Luzon.
10:00.Mike and I were on our way home from work to pick Nanay and Tatay for Tatay’s dialysis. At first we were so worried we’re about to be late because of the slow traffic in EDSA. That was 8am, Saturday . Then the traffic stopped moving, the water went up. That’s when we realize we were stranded. We called Nanay and Tatay to tell them we can’t make it, look for a driver to drive them to the dialysis center, and asked how they were. That was my first call and everything was ok apart from the fact that they need to call Mang Nelson (neighbor who usually drives them to and from the center).
20 minutes after, we heard from the car radio that the flood was across Metro Manila. I got worried and called nanay to tell them the streets going to Quezon City may not be safe, re-route… only to hear my nanay’s nervous voice telling me they were upstairs because the water was waist high inside our house. I was so worried because I knew they were alone and my tatay can’t walk anymore; shocked to even heard there’s really flood in our area which never happened the whole 26 years of my life. Nanay told me my cousins went to their rescue and was able to help them save some of our things.
In the meantime, we also have our own dilemma in EDSA. Mike went out to help people push their cars to shallower areas. The water was almost “seat-high” inside the car and he refused to let me help. I stayed inside, squatting so the water won’t reach me. We were stranded in EDSA for almost 10 hours.
The rest of the story won’t fit in this post…
Pictures of EDSA below…
September 27, Sunday, my birthday – I was staying at Mike’s house at that time, knowing that my family’s alright- the water subsiding.
Sunday,6pm, my mother told me they were finding ways to rush my father to the hospital. He skipped his dialysis and that was very crirical…
All of us were in the hospital parking lot waiting for tatay…
Days after, my sister-in-law told me she took pictures though they were just for the early hours of the day. the water reached chest high outside our house…
From Saturday morning ’till Monday morning, my brother was in Cainta. He told me they walked from Ligaya to Sta. Lucia where the water was chest-high. The management of Sta. Lucia mall opened their doors to give shelter to the people stranded there. Only, there’s no food etc. No food and water the whole day.
My brother took a couple of pictures…
