7am right now, and I'm half-asleep, half-snuggly, half-worried and half-pissed. There's a typhoon in the country at the moment, and storm signal number 3 has already been raised. To give non-Filipino readers an idea of what that may be like, signal #3 means that it's raining really hard outside, classes in all levels have been suspended and government offices are also closed. Only agencies that are related to rescue work are open today.

Anyway, I'm half-asleep since it's just way too early for me, but I had to send Ian to work. Since it's raining outside, we've been trying to call the office and we launched an SMS brigade to ask around if we have work (private, non-government office. Meh.).

I'm half-snuggly since it's SO COLD! And the sheets are nice, and I just want to roll around for the next two hours or so.

I'm half-worried because Ian may be at the air-conditioned office, wet and all and he may end up sick. I'm kicking myself for not buying a raincoat.

I'm half-pissed that we spent half an hour calling the office but no one was answering the damn phone when the entire third shift is there (or at least most of them, I think). And the OM who's supposed to be handling all this? Absent. HR is trying her best but since she lives in Novaliches, I don't even know if she'll make it to work today. As for the training manager, he said that they need to ask the General Manager first... who is probably fast asleep in his condo and nowhere to be found until probably much later in the day.

Sigh.

I asked Ian to buy medicine on the way back home later, just in case we end up needing it while and if the weather stays bad. The only thing that I'm happy about is that I get to sleep in today since it's my day off, and I remembered to buy food to cook for dinner today, as well as some miso soup that I could give Ian later.

Still worried. T_T

And one of the strongest typhoons I have ever seen finally goes away.

Sigh. And we're exhausted.

The power just came back on an hour ago after around 13 hours of outage. The strong winds have uprooted trees, shattered glass store fronts and also sent pieces of roofing flying away. And in our case? It was one of our windows that the typhoon decided to pick on.

Ergh. I woke up at around 8 or 9 am with water in my face. I groggily thought that I just had to close one of the windows, but then I realized a few seconds later that the cork board thing that has been covering one of the windows has been torn off its place by the wind, and the rain was coming in almost horizontal. It was almost as if someone outside our window was aiming a firehose at us.

As for why we have cork board covering one of our windows, well, an AC unit used to be there but was removed by the landlord when we moved in. However, the landlord decided that replacing it with a one-inch thick, patched-together length of cork board would be enough... landlord also promised to replace it, but after almost a year, the cork board remained... until now.

Anyway, so I panicked and tried to put the board back into place. I then had to move our huge bed away from the windows to keep it from getting wet. And then to kick things up a notch, the entire window side of our room also started leaking for some reason and I was racing to place rags in four places, sop up the water then squeeze it all out in the basin that I grabbed from the bathroom. The water was coming in so quickly though, that I've barely squeezed one rag dry when another one is already dripping and creating a puddle on the floor.

Thankfully, Lem came home early and helped me out (it finally occured to our employers to stop admiring the rain and send us home... sometimes, I want to drag them out in weather like today's, then drop them off at Quiapo with 20 bucks in their pocket. Let's see how much you'd like typhoons THEN...). The rain subsided eventually, but it was a hard battle since Ian had to find a new board while I held the old, disintegrating board against the wind, and we then had to make repairs WHILE the typhoon was at its strongest. There was also no power at this time.

When the rain and the wind slowed down, we were finally able to go about the difficult business of restoring order into our room. We pretty much looked like we just moved into the place, with all our stuff scattered and stacked in the middle of the floor, pieces of wet corkboard all over, and rags in odd places.

So to sum things up, my only day off in the week pretty much, literally and figuratively, flew right out the window. Our room is still in a state of chaos but at least we're dry now. Through all this, I still managed to cook up the meal I've been planning for today, sans the pretty things that were supposed to come along with it.

To sum things up, we're exhausted.

At least the power's back on. Lem is playing GTA, I've finally had my fill of popcorn, and here I am, typing away. We still have much to do tomorrow, though. More cleaning. More repairs. Sigh.

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