Bagyong Ondoy? Please...don't come back.
Everyone has their story about the storm. Well, this is mine.
Well, see..
When I woke up, my parents were out -- Apparently, they went to Makati, and so, it was only me, my sister, and our maid at home. I opened up the laptop and used the internet to pass time -- I mean, what could I do? It was Saturday morning, and it was gloomy. Looked like it would rain. And so, the rain started.
A knocking on our window startled me. "Tao po," A man's voice said, urgent. I opened up our door, and this man, one of our neighbors, tells me, "Miss, may ahas po sa baba ng kotse nyo." Mr. Edillor (who's our neighbor ^^) speaks to me, and apparently, when the rain started, the canals started overflowing, and a snake which lived there had to get out (as to not die, of course :P) and hid under our car. He tells me the snake is as thick as a man's arm. He knows our parents aren't here, so he just warns us to lock everything properly. Our parents find out, and they tell us they're on their way home. They tell us to wear pants and rubber shoes, in case.
Mr Edillor's plan is to open our car and drive it out to find the snake -- But he said, he'll do it when the rain stops. For the whole afternoon, it rained, so he just took the car out before it got too late. The snake wasn't there, nor was it in the car itself, and it wasn't found. We were told to be careful, though.
It was late in the afternoon and the parents still weren't at home. What was up? They told us that it was flooding everywhere and that they couldn't pass. It got really late, and they told us to sleep in their bed. My mom textes, "Mukhang morning pa kami eh." We pray for their safety and go to sleep in the warmth of their bed.
We wake up to another gloomy sky complete with the rainfall from yesterday.
It wasn't flooding as much, though (the other day, the flood was until our knees), but still. It seems the parents stopped in Katipunan and lay on the floor there to rest for a while. They really couldn't pass anywhere and they couldn't get home. Mom asks us to tune into news to see what roads are passable ; But there wasn't any mentioned in the news, so our parents have to do things on their own. Apparently, my tita was with them too -- she was stuck in the LRT Station all night. She had to stay there all night long where the trains were passing. They couldn't go downstairs -- Dunno why. So anyway. The parents text us at 5 30 PM, "Turbo chicken ah, at kanin. Gutom na gutom na kmi." In the end, they got home before six. It took `em 34 hours to get home since they left Makati. The car was oh so dirty -- very muddy indeed. My mom tells us that they had to sleep in the floors of Sta Lucia with a lot of other people who were also stranded and couldn't get home. They tell us about how they drank very little water and ate jellyace for dinner because there was nothing else they could buy.
They say that there are 2 more storms expected to hit RP. Oh gosh. Let's just pray it's not anywhere as bad as Ondoy was. -__-
Well, that's my story. Care to share yours? :D
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