Jun 22 2008
While I Was Sleeping
I never bothered to check the weather report on Saturday. It's been raining the whole week, so I figured Sunday would be the same. So I went to bed last night and slept like a baby. I guess I enjoyed my sleep too much that I didn't hear the pouring rain on the roof, the howling of the wind, the cracks of the trees outside my house when the branches broke, nor when the fence of my next door neighbor fell over.
I woke up when the phone rang, and somebody was calling for my husband and asked him about the missing passengers of the ship that sank. What ship?! I looked around the house and saw that it was dark. Dang! No lights. I sent messages to my students to inform them that I couldn't go online. I went out to the porch and saw leaves, tree branches and trash littered the street, my neighbor's fence was practically flat on the sidewalk, and cables cut, hanging loose.
In the news were reports of floods in Metro Manila and in other provinces, at least 86 people dead and 700 missing passengers of the ferry boat that capsized.
Typhoon Frank (international codename: Fengshen) ravaged the Visayas and Southern Luzon, including Metro Manila while I was sleeping. Yep, I slept like a log.
