The Day After Basyang

Yesterday, the day started cloudy and I found out there was a typhoon... a tropical depression that leveled up and was named Basiang.

I had to meet deadlines that's why I was half-aware.  But when night time came, we did some preparations for the night.  We stored some drinking water enough for a day and filled the buckets with clean water for washing.  We strategically placed flashlights where we can find them and put a candle and a match right in the middle of the dinner table if in case the light goes out.

It was nine o'clock at night when the winds started.  But we never expected what came upon that night.

It was 9:30pm when power started to fluctuate and it finally went out at 10:00pm.  It was not so much of a task since we all have gotten ready to go to bed.

The winds became harder at 10:00pm and got harder and harder as night falls.  My sister and I remained vigilant because we couldn't sleep at all.  We got all our pets inside including our dog who doesn't want to stay inside the house.  He stayed on that same spot with a door mat near the door all night long.  We could see that even our pets couldn't relax and get some sleep because of the very strong winds outside.  It wasn't long before we heard pieces of roofing materials flying outside our place.  This went on until 12 midnight.  But it didn't stop yet.

The winds slowed down and the rain got harder.  There was a leak in our kitchen.  Under our front door, small amounts of water started to come in from the bottom and water sprays in through our window that we had to close all the front windows.

This went on until about 3:00 in the morning.  The rain started to slow down as well as the winds, and we finally relaxed and prepared to sleep.

About 5:30 in the morning, I was awaken by our dog, leaking my face to wake me up.  I am thinking he wanted to go out of the house so badly and he thinks it was okay because the rains and the wind has stopped and it was already morning.

And these pictures were what we saw early this morning after Basiang struck last night.