I got fucked by Category 5 Supertyphoon Goni which passed almost directly overhead, and am looking at up to three months without power. It's only been today that they managed to fix the cell towers, and there's faucet water for only half a day.
But on the positive side: I GOT PHOTOS!
This is from when the power and phone connectively finally cut out. I was wondering why I had 4G for so long even when the power was out.
The winds are already sounding like planes taking off and the whole house was shaking.
Then the winds intensified even more, and the windows burst inwards, and I had to secure them back with curtains, cardboard, and batteries.
Photos can't do it justice, but everything is shaking just from wind force.
The first photo had the winds lashing in from the north, then the eye passed and the wind direction reversed even stronger.
As night passed and day dawned and the wind force receded, that left only rain.
It's a bit difficult to see, but there's a foot difference in height between the floodwaters of the river and behind the dike.
That's the first floor flooding to chest level.
Well those houses are gone.
And that next-door neighbor's house is gone.
If it wasn't for the dike, the flooding would be street level by now.
As it is, you can't see it but all the flooded areas are well below street level.
There used to be a row of wooden small shop buildings obscuring view of the street. Now they're all gone.
You can't see it because of the flooding, but there's supposed to be steps leading
down into this little cul-de-sac.
The winds did not spare this house under construction.
People below are stepping on the tops of piled gravel sacks.
Well shit, so that's why.
It might not be clear, but that's the river floodwaters rushing in from a break in the dike.