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I’m not really used to really strong typhoons,thunder,lightning but one thing I really dont like is being soak in the rain. It was unexpected and all of us are not prepared to this big flood in our place, though its not really the worst flood but the thing here is that the water reached our house and all our things got soaked in water. It was fun because I played the rain with my cousins but right after the water drained ugh! you will really be annoyed of the mud and wet things in the house. Some house especially in the coastal areas that are made of wood and nipa got swiped out by the flood.

Worst Climate-related Experience

Most of us people experience weather. Some are good and some our worst. But let me share you one experience I have on having a worst weather-related experience. For me it's worst but maybe for others it's not, but don't mine them this is my blogs not theirs. It all started on the 3rd Friday of August. In that time, it was around 2 pm when I came home from school. Then a heavy rain start and you can see that the clouds was so dark, you'll also hear the roar of the clouds that created lightings and thunder. By that time, my Mother go upstairs to seek for our storage room if it created some leak coming from the roof. So my Mother ask for help on me to do "kabo2x" on the floor and put it on a pail after that I "kabo2x" so fast inorder to throw the water on the neighbor's roof. After that time, minutes pass by, a text from my Aunt in which it stated that "Byang palihug nya kog kuha ni Radee sa Golden Gate" so my Mother me to do the task. So I immediately go to the school that nearby in our house. But before I get there I experience on crossing a mini flood that made my feet dip in a dirty water. By the time I got in the school I immediately ask someone if they know my niece until I finally found her. After that incident, It was not finish because the leak in the house reall cause a serious problem because it also affect our First floor in which it also has leak. So I get a basin to serve as container for the leakage. That time for me is worst because I exert so many efforts to overcome the problems. But within that day It was a blessing that no ones hurt in my Family. I was so thankful that in that day even though I experience that problem but I learn something that you need to be always patient to what ever happens in Life. And that is all I want to share for today. Thank You Guys for reading. Hope you like it :)

It was a school day when it rained hard and it was very unusual because the rain started early morning with matching thunder. I go to school riding a tricycle and a jeepney so my mom was really worried about me. She even told me, “Ate, basin walay klase, ayaw na lang adto.” but because I don’t want to be absent, I told my mom that i would go to school inspite of the weather and no announcement was made so I insisted to go to school.

 As I was travelling to my destination, I was really annoyed because I got soaked by the heavy rain and the wind is blowing really hard so I end up cold. When I arrived to school soaking wet,  our teacher announced that there will be no classes due to the storm. I was really pissed that time, if only they texted us, we wouldn’t have go to school early in the morning. So I called my mom to tell her about the announcement, and she end up scolding me and making me realize that I should have listened to her. 

Now let me tell you a story about my worst weather related experience I've had.

I know some of you may expect me talking about the storm Yolanda, but nope I am not going to talk about that because lucky for me I wasn't here in the Philippines during that time, so this story may not be worst for you but it is for me.

It was 12:30 that day and our next class would be on 2:30 so me and some of my classmates planned to eat in Matias just for fun. So we ate there, had fun, and enjoyed. We were eating on a part of Matias where there is no roof suddenly we felt little drops of rain but we didn't think it was something big, we didn't mind about it so we just transferred table where we wouldn't because of the rain drops.

When we finished eating we we're ready to go back to our school, but while we we're trying to ride a jeepney we noticed that the rain is getting a little bit stronger but because we we're having fun we didn't think about the flood that is coming. We just laughed and teased each other.

When a jeepney stopped we realized that we wouldn't fit inside so we divided the group, and let some of our classmates ride in first. During that time our next class would be Communication with Sir  M and we're to supposed have an extemporaneous speech, so those who aren't done with the activity rode with the first batch. Those who were on the second batch are those who are done with the activity.

A few minutes later another jeepney stopped and luckily there aren't a lot of people in that jeepney so we just fit inside. Half way during the ride the rain got so much stronger that it started flooding and by that time we realized that we we're doomed.

Suddenly the jeepney driver told us that he wouldn't drive anymore and would U-turn because the flood near our school is so high so the driver dropped us outside a store near mini stop store.

but I didn't know there was like a canal on the side of the street and my feet almost went inside, but then I stopped and because of the strong flow of the water I needed help to go on a part where there is lesser water.

When we we're on the part where there is lesser water we stopped for a while and decided to just wait for the flood to go down but the water just keeps on rising. By that time we didn't realize that mini stop was just beside that store, so we keep on looking for places where there would be no water for us to stay for a while until the flood goes down.

When we saw the mini stop we run towards there. We actually thought of getting a trash bag and put our things there so our things wouldn't be destroyed, and just swim our way to our school, but someone, I forgot who, said that we could just stay here and wait for the water to go down even just for a while. So we stayed for a few minutes and then someone, again I forgot who, said that we could go upstairs just for fun, so went on the 2nd floor of the building.

We stayed there for almost an hour and thought of calling our professor that time and asked for forgiveness if ever we couldn't be on his class on time or even worse we would be absent on his class. Thank fully sir understood our situation.

a few minutes later we saw that the rain had stopped and the flood is getting smaller so we decided to just walk our way on the street towards our school, which by the way the water was up to our knees.

there were cars that stopped in middle of the road but there are some cars that really tried to pass through the flood, but because the cars move in a very slow pace so we had the chance to just walk in the middle of the road.

why in the middle of the road and not in the side you may ask. It's because the middle of the road is little bit more higher than the side so the water is just on our knee because if we walk in the side of the road the water would've almost been in our hips. So walk there and FINALLY, we reached the school grounds and run our way towards the shuttles so we could still reach our class even just for a few minutes.

Back when I was still young, I always wonder if what would happen or what is the feeling when a storm would hit our place. My mother always tell me about her experience Bagyong Ruping where she was scared because it seems like the wall of our house will be taken away by the wind. And the wind keeps on whistling.

I don’t know why everytime my mother would share her experience about that storm, I feel so amaze. Maybe because at that time I keep on watching fictional movies where after a storm, I would find a mysterious place. But everything changed when I experienced Bagyong Yolanda. I can still remember how our school kept on telling us to be safe at that time. I was not worried at first. I feel excited because there would be no class! But when the day came where bagyong Yolanda landfalls, I feel so scared. It keeps on raining and the wind is so strong. Me and my family even my grandmother are staying inside our house and keeps on praying to God to protect us from that storm. At that time, I don’t want to go far to my mother. All of use wear jackets and the flashlight is always in our hands. Some of our neighbors transferred to evacuation area already because they are afraid that their house might be destroyed by the typhoon. We stayed whole day inside our house. And the day after that, our place was like a ghost town. There are no cars passing on the road. No people walking around the street. All you can see are the broken branches of the trees and everything else that were destroyed by bagyong Yolanda.

After that typhoon, I always got scared if the there’s an upcoming typhoon that will hit Visayas. Typhoon Yolanda left a very devastated place and brought fear and scars in the hearts of Filipinos.

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