Guindulman Bohol's Drone Footage After Odette

Two weeks ago, our province and the neighboring islands suffered greatly from the raging storm locally called Odette, its international name is Rai.

I shared a video a few days ago where we have seen the things it caused to our neighborhood. The people around us were dismayed about the devastation but they were not sad. I remember hearing a conversation from our neighbor farmers who met right in front of our house.

Mind you, they were smiling during the conversation. They didn’t feel like victims, they move on from the situation, and it was just a few hours from the typhoon! It was a devastating thing to find your ricefield becoming a river, flooding all your plants to death but life must go on indeed. They accepted the sad fact of the effects of the storm and had decided to start over again.

There’s a great lesson I have learned from these farmers. Thinking about how they handle such situation in an instant way, I have to also apply the same in my endeavors and perhaps everyone else affected can also look at the positive side of things rather than the dark corners.

This video displays the aerial view of our neighborhood right after Odette, it was taken early morning that's why the sun has not yet showed up. We are surrounded by rice fields and they had been flooded that the rice seedlings were rotten, there were so many rubbish floating on the fields, trees and debris fell into them.

It was frustrating to see the body of water making it look like a lake at that time. Two weeks after the typhoon, it’s again raining hard here in our place. The rice fields are again filled with newly planted seedlings and I hope that today’s rain would do no harm to them.