Last week was a busy week. Well, not I but perhaps almost everyone in the region was. There was news of people evacuating, going to safer places for the fear of landslides, floods, lahar and mudflow, all because of a tropical storm which hasn’t leave the Philippine area of responsibility as of yet. For 2 weeks of rain and gloomy weather and dangers of storm in our minds, today’s weather is fine. Even though today is sunny with scattered clouds in the sky, some areas in the northern part of Luzon (I am located south of Luzon, where the typhoon was originally reported to land and may had created destruction) is still under the tropical storm scare. On the news, those areas are flooded, no electricity and suffered quite terribly. Luckily, from where I am, there was no flood, massive destruction, or landslides which are originally premeditated and reported to possibly happen. The town was actually ready for the flood and most especially the typhoon. It was reported that it may become a super typhoon because of its slow motion and strong gustiness, but actually, there was only a cold gust of wind, gloom and light rain. Though, we were in tropical storm signal no.3, it felt like it was just winter (without snow that is). So even if it landed in the area, there was a probability of zero casualties because everyone was prepared. Thanks to the news (no pun intended for it was really originally to land our region)! It was however a good thing that tropical storm Mina didn’t land in most areas in the region...Sadly though to the northerners. But I am pretty sure they have prepared and casualties are low (on second thought, the news says there are casualties).

As I write this, the typhoon Mina is still in the northern part of Luzon, destructing livelihoods of my fellow Filipinos. On the western part, the typhoon Lando which was prior to Mina, came back after he created chaos in Vietnam. So right now there are two typhoons in the Philippine area. Not only that, down south a low pressure is sighted that can possibly become another typhoon which will be called Nonoy. How unfortunately Philippines can be in seasons like this. There was even a text message that circulated which says that Lando ran away from Mina because Lando doesn’t like Mina. Lando came back because Nonoy is about to come, who he truly likes. Simply put, Lando is gay.