For the past 1-2 weeks, Manila has been experiencing torrential rains. It is normal to experience it here but it is getting out of hand. We had experienced a typhoon last week which is reasonable for having bad weather but after it left, people thought the weather would improve and the rains would stop. But the problem is it didn't.

Last Monday, the rain seemed like how it normally does so I went to the gym as usual. I was able to finish early since I went there early to do some errands (to be discussed in future posts). As I was going home, the line for the shuttle service was quite long as expected during rainy days. It took me around 1 1/2 hours just to get home. On the road, I noticed some roads were already flooded near our street but fortunately, our street wasn't flooded yet.

But it got worse later on that night as the rains didn't stop and as I was watching the street outside, water was rising and I feared that it would be similar to the typhoon Ondoy back in 2009. I couldn't sleep despite my grogginess but I had an intuition that what happened back then would not happen again in our house so I didn't really panicked but I tried to get some thing on higher ground just in case. 

I slept with risk of waking up to a scene of floodwater in the house but as I had hoped for, the water outside our house already died down despite the continuous rain that still poured. I checked the news to find out that it wasn't the same for most areas. A lot are flooding and several news of deaths have been reported. Red warning has been raised. Classes in all levels, work including in the BPO industry in Manila has been suspended, something that is rare. What's worse is that it was not even a typhoon and just rains coming from the monsoon. It was later reported that the amount of rainfall that was produced was greater than that of Ondoy! It is quite alarming to think how bad could it get if it was a fully developed typhoon? Not only the government but everyone should do something about it especially in waste disposal as it is one of the reasons of flooding. 

The good thing about this is it brings out the heroism among many of our fellowmen and unites us in helping each other. Several companies,schools, establishments are helping in giving relief goods where everyone can donate and help in relief operations. 

Today, the red warning has been lifted and it was predicted that the weather will be good. We got teased by the sun appearing in the morning but the heavy downpour of rain returned by the afternoon and continued throughout the day. Hopefully, it will be gone by tomorrow because I need to run some errands again.