UPDATE 3, 7:00AM, Sunday: The aftermath.
UPDATE 2, 4:00PM: Azrael has this good blog post that contains various media from different bloggers that may serve as somewhat of an overview of the current situation. You may want to take note of the following numbers he has posted:
If your area is in danger due to flood, dont hesitate to contact our National Disaster Coordinating Council Emergency Nos.: 912-5668, 911-1406, 912-2665, 911-5061
and Help hotlines: 734-2118, 734-2120Also contact Meralco to shutdown electricity feed if your area is in high flood water.
mobile : 09175592824 or 09209292824
Click here to read Azrael’s post.
Around here in our area, the flood water has receded by 4 inches or so, so I suppose that the power-shut off scenario has been suspended for the moment. The rain continues, however; by my count, it has been raining for more than 16 hours now.
UPDATE 1, 2:50PM: Building management’s told us to charge whatever we need to charge because they’ll be shutting off the power later on, as the flood water looks to get up as high as the power transformer located on the first floor. I s’pose this means we’ll be going offline as well. Stay safe, everyone – don’t do anything risky unless you really have to!
ORIGINAL POST: It’s been raining for more than 12 hours now, and reports are coming in all over the metro of floods going up as high as the roofs of single-story homes. Lots of people stranded, lots of people to rescue. The military’s mobilizing, and those who have ‘em are breaking out the boats.
Here in our community, floodwater’s chest deep in some streets. Cars are submerged, and water’s already coming into our building’s first floor, right up the steps. More photos after the jump.
I half expect our power to be cut sometime today; in some places, the news reports say that people have been asking to have their power cut for safety reasons. Authorities have been telling people who live neer creeks to move to safer, higher grounds; there’s a creek just a block away from us, but we have reason to believe we’ll be reasonably safe, our apartment unit being on the second floor and all.
We’ll see what happens.
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