Life Goes On!

Finally after almost a week, the electricity is back is Mandurriao!. A devastating storm had just swept across Iloilo (and the rest of Panay) and for a moment, all activity in affected areas stopped as flood waters ravaged farmlands, homes, and urban areas. Right now, the rains have stopped and the flood waters have receded leaving a thick layer of mud inside homes, buildings, on roadways, and open spaces.

Almost everyone has lost property because of the storm, even their lives. The city currently looks like a war zone, many homeless families have turned the roadside into a big shelter and are resorting to begging for money because it is their only hope for survival. I’ll blog about the relief effort tomorrow after I do a bit of research. For the meantime, I still got to clean our house, which got flooded for the first time in the 20 years that it was built.


2 Comments to “Life Goes On!”

  1. Jo
    3 July 2008 at 4:32 pm #

    Hi. Nice blog. Do you have pictures of mandurriao district during the flood or the aftermath? I am from NHA, and I really want to see pics of NHA area if you have any, I plan to let my pals see them. Grabe diri sa NHA galing wala ko bi camera. Thanks a lot.

  2. chymera00
    4 July 2008 at 2:21 pm #

    Aw. Don’t have pictures of NHA during the flood. Currently, the flood waters have already subsided and most of the roads are already dry …. but not clean.


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