The Week of Mayhem

This is such week of hectic a mayhem. After 11 long years, a typhoon visits Manila. This typhoon called Milenyo came to be a nightmare for the capital city and much more for me. Flood lined out my entire route to Buendia. There’s power outage that makes my apartment trapped with no water motor to give us enough water to use. And I am totally stuck living in the darkness. I cannot even take my bath. Much worse, it is just so horrible that one of my windows gave up forcing me to use my savior called “trapal” to prevent me from getting cold or anything worse that what my sinusitis is telling me all throughout the day.

I cannot go to work that day.

And it is not just for the reasons that I stated above. It’s just that I do not want to take my life at risk. PAG-ASA might have been leveled-off the typhoon signal in Manila from level 3 to 2 at 4pm but that’s not a good reason for me to pack up myself (without taking a bath because there’s no water) and walk all my way with all the floods in my way to work. Indeed that Makati is such a modern city with all the streetlights, concrete roads and billboards all over. But what more this modern city would do when nature strikes. Streetlights might fall off, tress might be uprooted, concrete roads might be very slippery and worse than all, billboards might end up my life.

At the end of the day, 18 people were ‘reported’ dead in Manila alone, two of which is in Makati:

“In the Makati business district, the steel frame of a billboard fell on a bus, a van and a taxi, killing the van driver and injuring the driver of the taxi, police said.” PDI, Typhoon batters Metro Manila…09/29/06

See how risky it is during that day no matter what I’ll ride on, a bus, a van, or a taxi with those ‘monstrous’ billboards along the way. There were load of ‘em actually along EDSA that I need to pass and I don’t want to catch them all when they fall.