Bending, Not Breaking
It was a dark night.
But the Filipino have had many a dark night, and have had endured many a storm.
But the storm that one Saturday night was different.
It started out like ordinary rainfall, just a drizzle, in fact. There was wind, yes, slight howling, barely noticeable, dark night eclipsing the dark clouds. Just your ordinary night. Two nights prior, the resident storm-forecaster PAGASA issued storm warnings, but in those warnings, they have relegated Ondoy’s (international codename: Ketsana) category to that of a minor storm.
Nothing to worry about.
No one was prepared.
The rains came. A deluge.