Paeng PH Experience This Weekend.

Saturday, after I logged off in my work laptop I tried to take a nap for a few minutes as the weather was good for being lazy.

It is cold, the airconditioner was off the whole night and wind started to blow in our house. It was not strong the night before, it is enough to keep your fans off the whole period.

After getting some powernap around 30 minutes I asked April if she's going to do the laundry. She said yes, however since rain starts to pour, she's not sure on where we will let our clothes hang to dry.

Indoor clothesline isn't an option for us, since we have two cats running and jumping everywhere that causes chaos in our home. Thus we decided to postpone it in the meantime, and wait for the weather to be better.

I heated the left over food from the night's work and we proceeded on eating our breakfast. A few minutes after, the lights are flickering and after some seconds everything was turned off. Power was out and heavy rain with strong winds began to howl.

We finished our breakfast and told April to check and see if there are news available where we can tune-in. I forgot to load my prepaid phone with data plans as I solely rely on the internet service that we had. Globe, Smart and Dito, the 3 main mobile network providers are unavailable. It seems that their towers are affected too.

I had received a text message from MERALCO saying that there's a power interruption and they are not sure on when it will be fixed. I am anticipating that the power interruption will be at least more than 12 hours as we are already in the eye of the storm.

Watchful on what will happen next I checked the outside of our home. Trees are still in-tact, and no flooding as of the moment. On the other side in my parent's house I am expecting a huge flood already and my siblings already moved their items in the 2nd floor of our house. Which later I had confirmed that happened, Biñan is still flooded and there's multiple people who are waiting for relief operations from the government.

In the afternoon, April and I talked about where should we put our equipment as I saw that the water coming from the mountain starts to fall down and I am noticing that the backyard's full of rain water already and around two to three inches it will enter our premises. She mentioned that she doesn't know as well and I just nodded let's see what will happen next.

We decided to sleep early that night. With no electricity and wifi there's nothing to do. Good thing we still have some small candles in our house that I bought previously as if there's none we will have a hard time on walking as the house was dark already.

When the rain stopped pouring the day after, and power was returned I tried to check our surroundings a lot of fallen trees and a small flood remains.

I told April that I will go to the market to buy some supplies as well since our home was quite dirty due to the rain. Water supply was cut off and when it got restored, sands started to pour for more than an hour.

What did I learn from this experience?

I am used to such weather condition back then but I become complacent.

I was not prepared as the supplies that we had in our home is just enought to keep okay that day. The idea, that I had left our home and I will not experience such bad weather is a scam and being a father now I should have known better and be prepared to whatever happens. I always forget on buying some tools such as hammer, nails, screws extra lighting etc. which now I realized as an important asset as well.

So always be prepared and make sure that you have available stuff around.

The video above is what I had captured after I went to the market to buy some of our supplies.