You know that feeling of being helpless because you can’t stop the typhoon from reaching your shores. I am tuned in to the radio for the hourly updates and at the same time following PAGASA’s updates online. Typhoon Lawin has intensified into a super typhoon as it moves closer to Cagayan and Isabela which are now under typhoon signal #5.
Strength: Maximum sustained winds of up to 225 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 315 kph.
Forecast Movement: Forecast to move West Northwest at 24 kph.
Metro Manila is under signal #1. I am praying that it would weaken somehow during landfall. Our friends and family in the Northern part of the country have suffered enough. I am so worried how they will cope once the typhoon lands in their place. Every time there is a typhoon coming (even if it will not directly affect our place), I am reminded of typhoon Ondoy back in September 2009. It always gives me the jitters. Imagine your house submerged up to your neck and you have to renovate and replace almost all of the furnitures and appliances which were destroyed by the flood. Imagine your books ( a collection that started during your college years) submerged in water and much as you want to save them, the pages have glued together. Three yearbooks (mine, Josef’s and Nissa’s) completely destroyed. I cried seeing those because they were our only reminders of our university days in UST. Imagine your worry that your scheduled visit to your oncologist and chemo treatment won’t push through because your car was also submerged in flood waters. I can still remember it all vividly.
You learn your lesson and you learn it well but when natural calamities are your enemies, you can only cling to God and pray hard. I am praying hard that super typhoon Lawin would not be that strong when it hits land. Oh please, move a little faster and get out of our way.
Do you know that Lawin is a Tagalog term for the bird hawk?
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