The Punisher

author: Sean Gotidoc

It was Wednesday night, everything was fine, everything was in order, the stars were in position and they were twinkling as they do every night. My pillows are as cozy as I ever want them to be, then I fell asleep, a very deep and comfortable sleep. Then I heard a banging sound at first, I thought it was something in my dream but after sometime, the banging started to disturb my sleep. I woke up annoyed and saw that the window in my room was very wet and foggy. The banging started again, even stronger than before and then i knew that the banging came from my window. Strong winds plus large amount of water hit my window. Its a big fat typhoon. Maybe that's why PAGASA declared that we will have no classes that day. For the first time, PAGASA was right! Because in the past few months, PAGASA declared no classes but there was no typhoon or strong rain just droplets of water haha! Now I went downstairs and then the wind blew very strong, I even felt it inside our house. I ate my "brunch”, and then i went back to my room. As i watched the storm from my window, I noticed that our terrace was full of water and under our terrace is our kitchen. I went downstairs and checked our kitchen, and I saw that there was a leak in the screen ceiling above our shoe cabinet. As the terrace got filled with more water, the leak get stronger and stronger until my mom and I helped to prevent the leak from over flowing our kitchen. Then my dad and our maid got home and our maid emptied the terrace. Thank God its over... After the storm another problem hits us. Electricity and water were nowhere to be found. It was very hard! so hard! NO TV, NO COMPUTER, NO SHOWER, AND NO FLUSH (toilet). We went out of our house in belair and went to our house in cabuyao just to take a freaking bath. On the way we saw so many trees lying around and destroyed billboards. Gosh it was a total disaster. Maybe nature is planning for revenge in our world. We polluted mother earth. We made power plants, destroyed mountains just to get what we wanted. I hope this opens the eyes of the Filipinos. I hope they realize what they did to our home and I hope they will do something about it.