This is what the recent typhoon left my mom’s house.  It tore off the narra plywood walling and the house’s wood parquet, laminated at that.  Construction has been ongoing for almost 2 weeks now.  The workers are pretty fast.  My mom first spoke with the contractor that built my family’s house and she quoted the cost at P300,000.  She got a foreman of sorts and she saved a whole lot of hard earned money.  

All that was needed to be replaced are the walling and the flooring.  The walls will be painted with semi-gloss paint and tiles will be installed on the floor.  No plumbing or electrical job, so I encouraged mama to let go of the contractor and get avail of the workers services straight. Why pay extra, right? The house is almost done and it’s bright and shiny.  We’re excited for them.

What typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy, locally) has brought us is hands down, the most traumatic experience for me,ever.  Something that never occurred to me, that will ever happen in my lifetime.  Last Saturday, it was around lunch time or so when my folks, sis and BIL came and evacuated to our place because their house has started to fill up with flood water.  This has never happened before.  We have endured the wildest of typhoons since we lived here in 1980’s and the most flooded we got was water filling up the sides of the streets and it goes down in no time.

the roof is what is left off our car and a foot from the height of our gate

In the height of the typhoon, the flood waters in our street have gotten higher than that of an average person, inside our house is around the height where my hipbone is. I will be posting pictures later.  Typhoon Ondoy (International name, “Ketsana”)nkilled so many people, the death toll is rising up until now.  As of this writing 246 have died.  We’re thankful enough that we are alive, eventhough we lost a whole lot of things. During the height of the flood, what was left of our car was its roof.  :-(

What really baffles me is that how come people were not advised to get ready for anything like this. Sure they have to release water simultaneously from two dams, but how are we supposed to know that we should anticipate anything like this? Somebody has got to answer for all the deaths and damages! Napocor was said to have advised the local areas that will be affected, but whoever were told about it obviously just brushed it off and this is what happened. I hope people will step up and look into what came about this tragedy. Hiring New York accident lawyers would be way easier for people in the first world and actually expect justice to be served, but sad to say, we on the third world are expected to just suck it all up. It’s crazy!  I just pray that the Lord will comfort and give strength for victims to start over.