ondoy - day 3. sunny skies and bags of rice
ondoy - day 3. sunny skies and bags of rice
(Click above for day by day accounts and photos of the week Typhoon Ondoy stopped Manila)
(posted by Jess)
On Monday morning, we had power for a short while, but it turned off again by about 8:00 am.
After breakfast, we ventured out into our neighborhood to explore. Our home is on higher ground, so we thankfully didn’t suffer any flooding in our house. But what kind of damage had the typhoon caused outside?
Some parts of the hillsides nearby started to slide. There were lots of felled trees, and mounds of dirt on the road. About a mile from our house is a lower section of road where there is a river running underneath that completely swelled during the storm, surging with so great a force that it not only flooded that section of road, but also lifted a vehicle (abandoned by its driver) and pushed it through the fence of a golf course, knocking the fence over and sending the SUV tumbling onto the fairways.
We went to the grocery store to stock up on batteries, canned goods, etc. . . as well as to buy food for our friends at the bridge. Many of their homes (five at last we heard) had washed down the river.
The grocery store was a
madhouse! Lines were the
longest I have seen. But we
were able to buy 75 kilos of rice
and other food to give
to our friends. Sean and our
older boys, Kian and Christian
divided them into individual
bags for distributing.
Unfortunately, the traffic was so bad again
Monday that Sean and the boys had to turn
back after heading out to the bridge. Sean
ended up dropping the food off early Tuesday
morning (5:00 am!) on his way to Batangas
Port for a conference in Mindoro.