The sea surged up to San Jose?
Yes. Before coming downtown, it surged through our place.
Our house was just over here.
How high was the wave?
It's not just as high as a person but is much higher than a two-storey house.
Our house has a second floor.
The water was higher than our second floor.
So, all of our things, like electrical gadgets, was lost.
Nothing was left behind.
When Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) happened,
almost all located at the downtown up to here in San Jose was hit by the storm surge.
It reached Norte up to Diit.
All of the coastal barangays downtown suffered losses.
In terms of property, lives, businesses, and livelihood were affected.
From above, this is the picture of Tacloban City now.
Houses are once again constructed by the sea.
Their livelihood is once again thriving.
The ship that once came with the surge which took many lives,
is now a monument of the past.
A few meters from here, the house of worship of the Church Of Christ still stands firm.
It was not brought down by the deluge; a sign of hope and steadfastness of its members.
Wednesday
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
It was Wednesday.
I saw many people panicking because of what we heard in the news that a deluge will strike our place.
According to PAGASA,
Super Typhoon Yolanda is the strongest storm in history not only in the Philippines but in the whole world.
Good evening, Jessica.
The provinces of Eastern Samar, Samar, Leyte, are now under PAGASA's storm signal number 4.
We had a hard time traveling home because all public vehicles are full of passengers.
Sometimes we already see people sitting at the vehicle's roof just to make it home before the storm comes.
Thursday
Thursday, November 7, 2013
That was Thursday, in our worship service,
the brethren were fervently praying because we knew that a super typhoon would come.
While I perform my duty as a human being,
I could not stop myself to be afraid and be nervous.
But I convinced myself to be calm because I told myself that I am a member of the Church Of Christ.
I have a God that will guide me.
I firmly believe that He will never forsake me.
The night before the typhoom came, we had a committee prayer.
We became firm because of that.
But fate is playful.
The typhoon hit us, it was devastating.
Friday
November 8, 2013
The day that typhoon yolanda struck
I was not able to sleep. I waited for Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan).
Around four in the morning, the wind was howling.
I heard the roof slam.
My chest pounded even harder.
It was really devastating.
We looked outside the window trees were being uprooted. Houses were getting destroyed.
Then the vehicles we saw were turned upside down.
After that, we could not see anything. Everything was white.
I was thinking, and thought that this typhoon is unstoppable.
I told my children, "Let's pray. We should pray, Pa." He said, "Yes, we should pray."
After we prayed, I told people outside to come in.
I prayed, "Father, please save us." I know that the typhoon will go on.
The winds got stronger and stronger.
We felt that our roof was slowly being torn apart. It was already flooding.
What my wife, my children, and I did was hide in the comfort room.
Our comfort room was the safest place in the house.
The floodwater was steadily rising up to here.
We were standing here and the water was up to here.
I told my husband that we should climb the windows, so we did.
I saw coconut trees outside, swaying until they were split in two because of the wind's strength.
Other trees and including the electrical posts fell down.
So in other words, we could not see anything standing.
I was hanging there. The water was too deep. I stayed there near the ceiling.
This gutter? The water reached that level?
Yes, it did.
You hanged there?
Yes, I did. I just held on to that.
I no longer have anything to hold on to.
I just stayed there. I just waited to what would happen.
Who were you with at that time?
My youngest child. He was clinging to my neck.
I let go of him as long as he was clinging at me.
I no longer saw a safe place to go or something that I could hold on to for us to survive.
Everything was floating.
Here at...
Yes, as far as your eyes could see, everything was water.
After we prayed, in less than five minutes, the water was already deep.
My child told me, "Mama, our car is already being taken away by the water."
When we were at the second floor, the roof was already gone.
The water already reached our second floor.
Around five in the morning,
I thought of saving our things.
I saved my second child's uniform in Church, mine as well, our hymnals,
my firstborn's finance uniform, and our shoes used for performing our duty.
I covered everything with plastic and placed it inside the freezer.
I thought that if the water continued to rise and reach us,
our uniforms for our Church office will not be damaged.
I did not mind other things.
What's important for us is the things we use for the performance of our duty.
I covered my children with a huge tarpaulin so that they will not be hit by the strong wind.
But when the wind got stronger, we could not do anything.
We just hid under the coconut tree because our house was already carried away by the strong wind.
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