Saving the earth could actually save us. Just so you know!
Yesterday I woke up pretty early to prepare myself for a lunch gathering. I was planning to finally pay the fee for the Arashi party when I realized it’s impossible to do so. It was raining damn hard and flood started to rise. Around 10 am I knew it was going to be hell. The flood rise up to the knee level, then after a few minutes it is waist-level. By noon my tita asked me to come down to help out in carrying the refrigerator, the water is entering the house. I looked out the window and saw people carrying bags and hugging each other tightly, hoping that the black water and crazy strong winds wont push them down to death. The water is chest-level. We carried all appliances to safety as well as my two dear dogs. Past 2, electricity left us. Then we starve because the last time we eat was in the morning. No food for us because the kitchen was slowly sinking in flood. By 5pm darkness took over. Im cold and starving. I looked outside saw a few more people trying to save their lives. We are lucky enough to have a house four feet elevated than the rest. Four feet and still the water entered our house. I slept, imagined Sho and our possible life together in Tokyo, how this calamity can be responded quickly in a first world country, but then again, earthquake is an inevitably strong protagonist in our love story. I woke up even more starve. Looked out and the rain gave no sign of stopping. The storm was giving its sadistic roar. It’s like laughing on mere mortals and chanting “Die, Die!”. The irony of loving a band named “Storm” ARASHI = STORM! By 6pm I could sense death. I know I’ve blogged this before about me sensing death. I could sense death by smell. But yesterday looking at the dark water I felt death. Cold air and the stillness, it is indeed death. I checked my phone and the signal died on me as well. It was crazy. It was still raining. I lied on my bed and sleep a few more minutes, woke up and sob a little. How long will this go on? My other tita called, she was outside and stranded on some fastfood. Oh how I told her early in the morning to just stay inside because the flood is sure to come. Well we needed money so who dares stopping her if she’s going to do a weekend tutoring. She was really worried that we haven’t eaten anything, plus no restroom cause the flood also entered there and no safe water to drink as well. 7pm I remembered our company president’s question on our last bible study. What if God tell’s you that you’ll die by 12 midnight. I checked my phone again, no signal, no way of saying goodbye to the people I know. I started sobbing. I know im lucky enough to be dry and safe at our second floor but my hunger and stupid humanity is taking over. Am I just going to die like this? How I realized that water is going to be the end of me. I don’t know how to swim! Its dark and cold, silence is killing me. What if I woke up and discovered myself floating? No way of transporting myself to the rooftop. Our window is made of steel bars and I wont be able to open it to safety. So I guess that’s it. I’ll just die like that. Ahahaha… I sob a few more, laugh at myself a little. I sense death, lurking around, trying to push a few more people to the dark water. Then here goes the cheesy part. I remembered Jesus and his apostles on a rainstorm. “Why the heck are you afraid? You are with me!” Of course that’s my modern version of Jesus rolling his eyes in disbelief. Like what the hell, you are with God! Duh! Then my sick yet consoled mind finally felt confidence and strength. I know I’ve been the third person, the witness, as death took my love ones twice but I forgot that a fourth person was also there. There was God!
*drum roll please*
*Key in the blinding spotlight*
After that little theatrical play inside my head I heard a sweeping sound. Water being swept away. The flood is gone inside our house. It was 8pm and I knew God has arrived! *Can I just send this to Nino’s Baystorm segment? I bet he’ll read this!*
8:30 pm we were able to cook and eat. Afterwards I was able to pee and shit!
By 10pm I received a few text messages. Im actually glad that people cares. I seriously thank you all.
The flood totally subside by 2:30pm in our area. I heard a lot of worse news. I lot of people are starving, cold and wet as I typed this down. A lot of them are trapped inside their houses still. Garbage is everywhere! People die.
If I die by 12 midnight there really is nothing that I could do but pray. Thank God for the short but happy and relax life, say sorry for the foolishness, hoped for a better day for those who would live. Basically that’s it. We’ll all die anyway but what is important is that we lived.
I took this pic around 10am by a 2pm this flood shit doubled!
PS Fuck to those who continue to pollute the earth and are happy because classes are suspended. There is a bigger picture here. Seriously!
Nino please read this Blog for your radio show!
