Weekend Happening
This past few days was a turmoil as one incident after another came. As you recall International Typhoon “Feng Shen” to our country it was called Typhoon Frank, swept across our country and particularly the city I’m living at and created havoc and anguished among the residents of “Iloilo City”. The city was in shock as most residents never experience this “Frank” to be the worst Typhoon this past few years, the streets flooded, sewer system got clogged up and went out to the streets. Even houses who have 2nd level was not safe as some of it even have to scramble to their rooftops to be safe. Typhoon Frank started Saturday, June 21, 2008 and lasted overnight the impact of the typhoon came around 10 am to some parts of the province and the high of the flood came around 2 pm in the afternoon as resident hastily search for safe places inside their homes as the water level drastically arises.
As “Frank” subsided after 2 days, I thought our problems were done for as due to Franks action we had to stay at a hotel for almost a week but that is not yet the worst of all, along with my grandmother we occupied two rooms at the hotel, during the weekdays, my grandmother was active and happily drinking her milk but it was Wednesday that she passed away around 4:48 pm as declared by the physicians and medical staff. Diagnosed to have suffered from “stroke” and “low blood pressure” my grandmother’s wake was held at a nearby funeral where relatives and friends came to visit her. I stayed at the funeral chapel for two nights barely giving my self a decent sleep.
We have to travel 138 kilometers outside of the city for the burial of my grandmother which was held Sunday, June 29, 2008.
Also the storm wreck havoc at our resort, uprooting large trees around the way, and within the resort itself, roofs torn and flew away, houses crumble and even glasses got broken, what surprised me their is a coconut tree uprooted and hanging over the roof of the staff quarters.
*blog was made Saturday, June 28, 2008… Pictures to be uploaded soon