Hey Mix, good to hear you're okay. Your friend's story shows that indeed, a lot of people had it worse than most of us.
How did you get past the flooded areas? I hope your house is fine too. There's been reports of looting in abandoned houses already.
What happened in our house was a flash flood. See, there's a creek/storm drain near my house, and it spilled over. My mom said it's the first time ever that that happened. When it spilled over, the water rose so fast that we couldn't get the cars out on time. My brother/driver tried to drive the cars to higher ground while the water was rising, but the garage was a little elevated. When they got out of the garage, the water was almost chest deep and the cars just stopped working.
Right now only the van works, the all of them smell like drainage and poo.
Inside the house, the water was knee deep in most places. Our wiring is inside the walls, so the entire first floor has no electricity until now, including the landline. It's good that the water went down fairly quickly as well when the storm drain was able to contain the water again.
It's not a puny storm strain either. The thing is around 50-feet deep and about a hundred feet across. We actually have bridges in the village to cross them.
Anyway, my family is fine. They just have to worry about the repairs and how to get around because the cars don't work. There's electricity on the second floor of the house now.
This was how the park looked like at the height of the flood. That's a shed, for people:
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Edit: Know what sucks? The weather here has been absolutely -perfect- for the past few days.
As in sunshine, cool breeze in the air, trees rustling slowly in the wind, birds chirping, happy squirrels running around in parks, trees reddening slightly because it's almost the end of summer... that sort of thing
Seeing that made a lot of Filipinos here wish they were in Manila to volunteer in relief centers.
How did you get past the flooded areas? I hope your house is fine too. There's been reports of looting in abandoned houses already.
(09-28-2009, 09:28 PM)atdsutm Wrote: to the people who got your house flooded? Jake/mix?
hows the situation there? has it subsided?
What happened in our house was a flash flood. See, there's a creek/storm drain near my house, and it spilled over. My mom said it's the first time ever that that happened. When it spilled over, the water rose so fast that we couldn't get the cars out on time. My brother/driver tried to drive the cars to higher ground while the water was rising, but the garage was a little elevated. When they got out of the garage, the water was almost chest deep and the cars just stopped working.
Right now only the van works, the all of them smell like drainage and poo.
Inside the house, the water was knee deep in most places. Our wiring is inside the walls, so the entire first floor has no electricity until now, including the landline. It's good that the water went down fairly quickly as well when the storm drain was able to contain the water again.
It's not a puny storm strain either. The thing is around 50-feet deep and about a hundred feet across. We actually have bridges in the village to cross them.
Anyway, my family is fine. They just have to worry about the repairs and how to get around because the cars don't work. There's electricity on the second floor of the house now.
This was how the park looked like at the height of the flood. That's a shed, for people:
Edit: Know what sucks? The weather here has been absolutely -perfect- for the past few days.
As in sunshine, cool breeze in the air, trees rustling slowly in the wind, birds chirping, happy squirrels running around in parks, trees reddening slightly because it's almost the end of summer... that sort of thing
Seeing that made a lot of Filipinos here wish they were in Manila to volunteer in relief centers.
