Typhoon Ondoy wreaks disaster (Friday and Saturday)
FRIDAY - I don’t know where to begin. With all the horrible stories of losses (life and property), you’re just at a loss for words.
The rain began pouring Friday night, on and off, you’d think this was just an ordinary storm, just like the others that came and went BUT this wasn’t, this was going to make history in Quezon City (City in Luzon where I live). In all the 39 years I’ve lived here, I’ve not seen anything this worse.
SATURDAY – In 6 hours of non-stop raining, Manila, Novaliches and other nearby towns were submerged in flood water. At 1 pm many of the residents were already at their rooftops, waiting for rescuers. Roads were impassable and water was chest high, the rivers and creeks, overflowed.
Electricity was on and off. As of this writing, some areas are still without power and water, and many are rummaging through whatever’s left of their properties, some of my close relatives are doing that just now.
If there’s any good thing a calamity like this entail, it brings families, friends and even strangers, closer. Everyone wants to help everyone no matter how little. Everybody becomes an aid, rescuer, hero.
And if any lesson is to be learned, it’s this: Nothing in this world, in this life is dependable, only GOD. We can lose everything we have in a split second, even our lives, that we really have no control over anything, only GOD does.
For donations, help, relief goods – click here
The rain began pouring Friday night, on and off, you’d think this was just an ordinary storm, just like the others that came and went BUT this wasn’t, this was going to make history in Quezon City (City in Luzon where I live). In all the 39 years I’ve lived here, I’ve not seen anything this worse.
SATURDAY – In 6 hours of non-stop raining, Manila, Novaliches and other nearby towns were submerged in flood water. At 1 pm many of the residents were already at their rooftops, waiting for rescuers. Roads were impassable and water was chest high, the rivers and creeks, overflowed.
Electricity was on and off. As of this writing, some areas are still without power and water, and many are rummaging through whatever’s left of their properties, some of my close relatives are doing that just now.
If there’s any good thing a calamity like this entail, it brings families, friends and even strangers, closer. Everyone wants to help everyone no matter how little. Everybody becomes an aid, rescuer, hero.
And if any lesson is to be learned, it’s this: Nothing in this world, in this life is dependable, only GOD. We can lose everything we have in a split second, even our lives, that we really have no control over anything, only GOD does.
For donations, help, relief goods – click here
Comments
Job 2:10 (Job replying to his wife who told him to curse god after what happened to him) He replied, "you are talking like a foolish woman. shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?"
sometimes we only want the good things all the time, not realizing we enjoy the good things because we've had the bad ones.