The One with Typhoon Milenyo

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Every now and then you are struck with experiences that you least expect to happen, just when you expect them the least. I, for one, had not anticipated the suspension of classes yesterday because it rained all the time. I had expected it to be just another, regular shower of rain. After classes were suspended, I was very glad at first because this meant I could put off writing the Polisci paper and maybe concentrate on IntFilo first. I also looked forward to being able to figure out just what to do with Ad Libitum on Friday. We had all planned to go out then. I rejoiced again when at around 8am Thursday morning, my dad had said that if the typhoon went like it did until 11am, there would be no classes again tomorrow. I panicked a bit because the plan with Ad Libitum would be jeopordized, but I did not, however, lose all rejoicement because that meant that I would not have to do both the Polisci paper and study for IntFilo. They could and would have to wait another day or so to even get started on. Horray for me and my "Time organizational skills".

At 10am however, things changed. It changed when lights went off. I didnt mind it at first because my laptop still had its battery. But an hour into the Blackout, I began to feel bored with my laptop. I turned it off and lo and behold, there was nothing to do. It began to feel hot and my nose started to twitch. This meant that it was reacting to the temperature change. A bad sign for me. My dad called me into the room to point out that a tree had fallen down somewhere down the street. A few people were looking at it, and I was kinda shocked. I didn't expect this typhoon to be strong. It shocked me even more when three hours later, the bigger and thicker tree in front of our house suddenly fell to the ground. Thank God that my dad decided to move the other two cars into the garage. Otherwise, both would have been smashed. A few hours later (with nothing to do, I had slept the entire afternoon on the living room couch. A first for me), lamp posts have reportedly fallen and more trees around our village started toppling over. Our own house was in disarray because we had to move the furniture away from the windows. Water was spraying in like crazy and the things near the windows kept falling. We couldn't afford to have any frames break or any lamps fall. They were broken enough as it was. Haha. At 5pm, there were people in front of our house, cutting down the branches of the tree that had fallen in our driveway. It took a long while but it got done... The remains of what once was a tall and dominating tree in front of our home, are still there. Its long trunk still blocking our shorter way out.

We slept that night in candlelight. Because my brother and I had slept althroughout the afternoon, we were awake for most of the night which was neither fun nor entertaining because there was no light and no coolness from anywhere. Thank goodness for the charged Nintendo DS that kept me company. At 3am, the outside was already kind of bright, they sky gray than the usual pitch black.

The next day, was ho-hum. It didn't rain at all. What happened was a surveial of the damage, and cleaning up of the chaos of the day before. My brother and I once again slept throughout the day. It was really boring, and we just decided to play outside at around 3 in the afternoon. At 5, we took our baths and then took a walk outside. The damage was something I didn't expect out of this particular storm. It was like a hurricane (well, in this case, a typhoon) had swept through the trees of our village. They were in a disarray. There weren't even leaning in one direction. I'm sorry, did I say leaning? I meant toppled over in one direction. It was like a jungle had died in our village. Thousands and thousands of leaves on the floor. People were taking pictures of what had happened, streetlights had no more..well, lights. It was really weird. It seemed surreal to me to see it.

But when lights came back on at 8:53pm tonight, i screamed in rejoicing and my brother and I danced to swing music. Go figure. I guess I took this thing for granted. And I hope this never happens again. I can't imagine why I was happy to have had classes suspended. I would have rather gone to school than spend almost 36 hours at home with nothing to do, but sleep. ;P