Dear Philippine Fit Members!!!
 

How are you all doing with the flooding? We saw some of it on TFC and GMA here in the states. I hope you are all doing fine!!!

yeah, it's looks crazy out there.

tagged for updates.

Thanks for this thread guys.

I live in Parañaque City so the flooding isn't so bad, mostly restricted to the streets.

The hardest-hit places were Quezon City, Malabon, Pasig, Marikina, Taguig and Cainta. It's absolutely crazy. Lots of my friends from there have had their cars submerged, their belongings washed away by the undertow, their homes deep in either muck or floodwater.

If you got friends in those areas kindly pray for them. Lots of people literally have NOTHING at this point. I came out unscathed - very lucky indeed. If you could donate anything at all, it'll be a huge help.

Things are slowly starting to normalize, thank goodness.

Just to show you the extent of the damage due to flooding.
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A brand-new FD Civic...unfortunately the driver perished inside :(
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._5647176_n.jpg

More photos to come...I'm reposting these from Honda Club Philippines' forums.

If you know the Isetann Recto underpass area:
https://i621.photobucket.com/albums/...quezonblvd.jpg
https://i621.photobucket.com/albums/...grapher/qv.jpg
https://i621.photobucket.com/albums/...ezonblvd-1.jpg

Somewhere else:
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Floodwaters make dominoes out of cars Part 2
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._2049174_n.jpg
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Tumana Bridge area, I think - somewhere in Marikina
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._6558870_n.jpg
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._5450334_n.jpg

A Quezon City neighborhood on Sunday:
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mann, i was just in that area over the summer... :(

So how bad was the new typhoon?

As far as Manila is concerned, nowhere as bad and as sudden as Ketsana/Ondoy (the original typhoon). People were better prepared for it I guess.

Death toll was lower too - "Pepeng" (the new typhoon) left 14 dead vs. 95 for "Ondoy." (Okay, people still died but there's slight consolation in the lower number.) "Pepeng" hit mostly the northeastern provinces - Isabela, Cagayan, the Batanes islands, etc.

Flooding still persisted here though. Municipalities around the Laguna de Bay area are flooded, and the water isn't expected to clear until December or February (!!!).

One of my superiors lives in Marikina (as you might know, it got the brunt of the damage) and he says it's all muddy and dusty there. Wash your car now, drive around there, and you'll need to wash it again in two days. That bad.

I have a couple of officemates whose houses are literally submerged almost to the roof. They're living in apartments for now.

Sorry for the long post but I figure no one else from the Philippines has bothered to post anything, so...

By the way it's pretty much situation normal now :)

keep updating this thread.

i was actually born in Quezon City.

Flood-damaged cars are everywhere these days. The repair shops and garages (or "talyer" if you're local) have been inundated.

I remember listening in to a radio show where they were discussing insurance and the all-important "Acts of God" coverage, because the typhoons were certainly an example of that. One of the insurance guys who guested on the show shared his story. Two days after the flooded weekend, he asked a tow truck crew how business was going. They said they got 7000 towing requests in just the span of the weekend, and out of that they had only managed to service 350.

Suddenly, ECU repairs and tips on how to restore/repair flood-damaged vehicles are all the rage on broadcast media and social networking sites now. I bet not many people knew what on earth an ECU was until "Ondoy" screwed with the ones on their cars.

On the lighter side...
My girlfriend heard on the news that the people in the evacuation centers are requesting CONDOMS now. Apparently people can still get the jiggy on there. :D

I've been keeping an eye on those typhoons hoping one will hit okinawa so I can get a damn day off. I know a bunch of planes are being sent your way for humanitarian relief so thats a good thing those pictures though wow.

Yep we're getting a ton of humanitarian relief, thanks to generous governments. I just hope all that cash and relief goods actually makes it to the people who need it...corruption is pretty rampant where I live.

Manila has stabilized but now it's the northern provinces that are hard-hit. Benguet, Cagayan, Mountain Province, Pangasinan, Zambales, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija - those were pretty hard-hit. Most of the latter provinces I mentioned are also our main rice production sites so there are fears of shortage (rice is our staple food crop here).

Lately, the prices of vegetables have shot through the roof - I'm not surprised though because this is what calamity does. The price of a kilo of cabbage, for instance, is now 3x what it used to be. Compared to veggie prices meats are cheap now!

It's like Katrina and the New Orleans area in a lot of ways, what we have now...the storm has passed but the effects are still present. If you guys can still donate, please do. I'm not sure how US-based Pinoys can help out but if there's a will there's a way ;) The need for help isn't over just yet.

sucks for the owners but suck the most to the owner of the sti and the 5..:(