Rainy Season in the Philippines

Today is the 4th of January 2011, Happy New Year everyone!!! It has been cooler,rainy here in the Philippines since December. Rainy season can be good and bad. It's good because it's a good time to plant some specific crops, plants need rain but bad weather happens during rainy seasons. That's when typhoons and storms roll in, it can be really bad like destroy homes, kill people, destroy farms and even can cause landslide.

Right now, as I write this, PAGASA (Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration declared Surigao del Sur (the province where I am) on state of calamity. I just watched the news on TV regarding the areas hardly hit by flood, there's a six year old girl who died from drowning, some houses were destroyed. Classes were canceled in my area. I told my mom that we should be on guard tonight because it's still raining and flooding can happen again.

Here are some of the pictures I took from yesterday's flooding..

                   Elise looking outside, she keeps saying "I wanna go swimming"

                    Elise's friends playing in the rain, flood was not that bad yet

 

The family who lives here evacuated, the water reached their floor. This person standing is a neighbor

 

Two little girls still smiling, water is only couple inches away from reaching their floor. My mom told them they are welcome in our house. Fortunately the rain stopped, water went down.

                                               The river water reached the bridge.

                                                there is a pathway by that wall                               

 

Houses here are on stilts but still flood reached floors. Our house is way higher from the ground than our neighbors', that is why my dad was not very worried.

As far as I know, nobody got hurt/injured by yesterday's flood in my neighborhood. This morning people were busy cleaning up the mud and garbage brought by the flood.

It's still raining at this moment, I'm bundled up with my blanket because it's cold. I guess we will be staying inside the house until weather gets better.

God has been protecting us here, thank all for praying for our safety.