Ugh. Chicken in the fridge smelling funky from insufficient cold hours. Going to try and deep fry it before it spoils.
Raining too heavily to get any charge from solar panels. Going to have to run the generator for longer to charge the batteries, but down to my last six liter jug of gas.
It has now been officially one month of no power since the supertyphoon.
Since I have to stay around for longer anyway, might as well post some more of the pics I had forgotten to share - if that's ok.
Let's take a look from the bridge.
That, by the way, is why the Philippines should not buy any MBTs. It is not tank country. Most bridges are only rated to 10 to 15 tons.
Of course, in some weird ISOT situation in which the Philippines is transported to WW2 and have to fight Imperial Japan with their 2010s+ technology -
The Philippines would still lose.
Japan's shitty tanks, some of the worst tanks in WW2, are actually light enough to cross bridges.
Granted, some of the Philippines' IFVs with 30mm guns would penetrate most of them just fine, but
a) most of them are in Manila
b) there's only so few of them.
Facing due north, this is the right side of the bridge.
Again, rocky deltas that seem like the river would dry up any moment, but that is a three meter storm surge wall and the river overflowed
anyway.
Tthis is the view from the left side of the bridge.
Let's take a walk now towards that collapsed section.
Note to self: just because a dike is convenient to have as a back wall doesn't make it good to build on it.
From what I can see of those features of the collapsed building, that seems to be a backyard piggery however. We used to have one of those too, when my grandfather was still alive.
Wonder what happened to the pigs. Probably washed away by the storm unless the people were willing to bring them inside their house.
Following the road, we see another collapsed section of the river wall, this time taking the road with it.
That flat concrete slab in the middle of the screen is actually on the riverbed, and there's a dog chained down over it.
Further on, we reach the S-bend just barely visible from the bridge. The terrain has been reshaped.
Those are road slabs. What happened to the dike sections?
It's like they were erased.
Those are some really shitty foundation work, mang. But what do you expect from 70s political kickbacks.
The concrete slabs anchored against the dike seemed solid enough even if just laid over mere dirt, it survived for decades.
This section of the dike remained standing, but the overflowing river waters were still enough to erode the foundation.
Moving on, we come to an elementary school.
As you can see from the foot bridge, the dikes are identical heights on both sides. Why did this side collapse while the other remained intact?
It's probably the road. The other side had housing running against the wall. Deeper waters, but the many retaining walls mean that the flood just had to sit there and drain out in the roads out the other side of the bridge.
Here with a road wide enough for vehicles, the waters could just flow and flow and flow until the concrete gave way.
The kids seem pretty happy with almost a full year without classes.
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