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The good: I'm okay. Some of you guys have probably seen the posts from the other folks in my country, and compared to most of those, I was hella fucking lucky. Subdivision where I'm living's pretty much on a mountain, so the most we got was leaky roofs, some flailing over electricity and making sure that everything was locked down and everyone was inside and did not leave.
Definitely much more worried about everyone ELSE out there, because this is probably the worst storm I've seen in all of my years down in the Philippines. As I said on Twitter, Plurk and IM, my house is open. It's WAY out of the way, but if any of you guys are stuck or something, please: let me know.
...For those of you who have no idea what just happened down here, long and short of is a storm named Ondoy came around and kicked all of our asses several ways to Sunday.
If you wish to help, there are sites all over the Internet that can show you how.
The bad: Parents have been delayed in coming home - I figure that it's better that way in the long run, but it's still horribly lonely and worrisome not having them around. Also heard they were hurt in a mishap on the train during their trip. Nothing major from what I gathered, but being injured in any fashion in a strange place is never good.
Back on the home front, some of my friends have not updated me or our other friends of their status for a little more than a day now. Some of my OTHER friends have not said anything at all since this began.
The ugly: Storm isn't quite over yet, and the rains have not quite let up down here... there are vague reports of yet ANOTHER storm coming within the next three days. I really, really hope that isn't going to happen. Flood levels around the metro still have not gone down all that much.
No school until Tuesday according to the news, and I hope to god that people will smarten up and make sure to call off work for everyone else. There are more pressing things to attend to for the majority of the population right now, I believe.
Hard to sort out my feelings on this one. It's a bitter thing and also highly surreal, being relatively unaffected by this on a physical level yet constantly wondering if one's friends and family are truly okay. Misplaced guilt, maybe? Can't really say.
Definitely much more worried about everyone ELSE out there, because this is probably the worst storm I've seen in all of my years down in the Philippines. As I said on Twitter, Plurk and IM, my house is open. It's WAY out of the way, but if any of you guys are stuck or something, please: let me know.
...For those of you who have no idea what just happened down here, long and short of is a storm named Ondoy came around and kicked all of our asses several ways to Sunday.
If you wish to help, there are sites all over the Internet that can show you how.
The bad: Parents have been delayed in coming home - I figure that it's better that way in the long run, but it's still horribly lonely and worrisome not having them around. Also heard they were hurt in a mishap on the train during their trip. Nothing major from what I gathered, but being injured in any fashion in a strange place is never good.
Back on the home front, some of my friends have not updated me or our other friends of their status for a little more than a day now. Some of my OTHER friends have not said anything at all since this began.
The ugly: Storm isn't quite over yet, and the rains have not quite let up down here... there are vague reports of yet ANOTHER storm coming within the next three days. I really, really hope that isn't going to happen. Flood levels around the metro still have not gone down all that much.
No school until Tuesday according to the news, and I hope to god that people will smarten up and make sure to call off work for everyone else. There are more pressing things to attend to for the majority of the population right now, I believe.
Hard to sort out my feelings on this one. It's a bitter thing and also highly surreal, being relatively unaffected by this on a physical level yet constantly wondering if one's friends and family are truly okay. Misplaced guilt, maybe? Can't really say.
