A super typhoon has entered our country, with its center affecting our region; this will be another sleepless night for us.
It's been a decade since a storm caused serious damage in our town, but the trauma it left us has been permanent. Most households' roofs were blown away, one month no electricity, but that wasn't even the worst that hit our country that year. Two bigger disasters followed the tragedy in our town. An earthquake after a few days, and then a super typhoon—the deadliest one to have affected our country to date—after a month happened in other places. Hearing the news, it made the people of our town realize that we were still very lucky because our experience was far too tame compared to what the victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) had gone through.
These past weeks, earthquakes and a typhoon have also just devastated other regions. Those places have yet to recover, and now, another super typhoon has come. I can't help but see the same pattern happening, and it's seriously making me anxious. Like history is trying to repeat itself.
The surroundings were gray and calm this early morning, but it's exactly the kind of calm that scares us the most, and we know will surely screw us over if we become too complacent. As of now, the rain has just started, and the wind is slowly arriving. I noticed I just shut down and booted up my charging laptop, like ten times already, every other minute for no reason. I've been restless, need to fiddle with something to stop my fingers from shaking.
Anyways, there's a big chance we're going to experience a blackout once the wind gets stronger. I mean, it always happens to us. Just saying in case I fall off the face of the Internet in the next couple of hours...
