The country has been experiencing continuous rain since last week with Typhoon Gener (international name Saola). It has been reported that more than half of the rain expected for the month of August has already fallen in Manila, the country’s capital, for the last 24 hours.
The entire National Capital Region and neighboring provinces are being hit by torrential rains which cause extreme flooding in the areas. Most roads are impassable – from ankle to chest-deep of flood, contributing to lots of people stranded outside.
Filipinos braving the waist-deep flood to get home
man using plastic water jugs as floaters in neck-deep flood
Not only that, rivers like Marikina and Tullahan got swollen and made bordering cities submerged in waist to neck-deep floods. Some areas were even worse – two-storey houses in villages get underwater.
houses submerged in water
However, it was worth noting that all these happened even though there’s no typhoon in the Philippines. Incessant downpour has been caused by a strengthened monsoon. The capital and nine surrounding provinces have been waterlogged due to bad drainage system and the fact that neighboring dams had overflowed and released water to maintain its level capacity.
la mesa dam spilling excess water
As a result, hundreds of families have been evacuated.
The Philippine army, along with the country’s National Disaster Risk Reduction Council (NDRRC), helped rescue the victims of floods and mudslides spawned by the seasonal monsoon. Concern citizens also extended help to their countrymen.
brave rescuers
a helping hand
helping in his own way
Despite all this, Filipinos are still able to smile and wipe off the stress brought by Nature. Being an optimistic nation, people still believe that the country will be able to surpass this calamity. Here are some of funny photos found over the Internet showing how people can still laugh in the situation they’re in.
lying lazily in the mattress
children frolicking in the flood waters
flood mermaid???
Indeed, Filipinos can still see the bright side of what happened. This proves how strong and faithful to God the people are in desperate times.
*to follow: my August 6 flood experience.
You could write for a newspaper, you. This is informative and sympathetic at the same time.
Thanks. Was a news writer in elementary and high school, haha!
That is why!
But I prefer writing an editorial…
Why not try? Write your very own state of the nation!
Planning to do in the near future though I’m not sure if that kind of writing is fit in my blog. Perhaps I’ll make another one.
This whole situation is really sad. I hope it wasn’t as bad as the one just a few years ago.
Last 2009, the country was hit by typhoon Ondoy (international name Ketsana). This month, there is no typhoon, but the non-stop rains brought specter of Ondoy. In fact, the amount of rainfall this August already exceeded that of the typhoon years ago. T.T
You put a
in the beginning and a 
on my face by the end of this informative piece of share! 
On my child-hood memories, I thought Philippines and Indonesia were the nations with environmental disasters stalking places. It was during the year of 2008, Tsunami tides our coast and the media over here was fully updated with a flash news regarding the origin of these waves from Indonesia. Later this name turns out to my vagary mind as Philippines instead of Indonesia. It’s still unknown that, why such a TWIST came to my mind. LOL. 
Hmm. I wonder why you mixed up Philippines and Indonesia. Was it because we are both archipelagic countries and belong to Southeast Asia?
Typhoons and floods are common occurrences in Philippines. Just two weeks ago, the day after my birthday, we had an undersea quake with a magnitude of 7.6. Tsunami alerts were raised to neighboring countries like Taiwan, Indonesia and Japan.
OMG! 7.6 as the rated quake? That may be really weird you know? I couldn’t even imagine about it, since I haven’t experienced such kind of natural calamities really on my eye-sights.
Rahul
Oh, weird? Not at all. Our country is included in the Pacific Ring of Fire where countries in that rim are mostly frequented by quakes of all nature. So it is like a common occurrence.
Oho! For me, it’s too weird all because of the reason that, I’m not enough lucky to experience such kind of natural events really in my life yet.
Rahul
Oh, I guess I will call myself lucky if I were you. You didn’t have to walk in knee-deep flood waters just to experience Philippine thunderstorms TT
Haha! That too an EXPERIENCE you know?
Rahul
Yeah. The last time it was too overwhelming, I cried. Haha!
Oh! So sad.
Rahul