Calamities & Natural Disasters

It was almost two weeks that it kept on raining in National Capital Region and other nearby provinces in Luzon Island... Classes were suspended for almost one week due to floods in some areas in Metro Manila and other provinces. It was cause by Southwest monsoon and a typhoon.. Some said it was according to the bible, the Noah's Ark... 

(Updated 9:49 p.m.) Tropical storm Sendong is shaping up to be one of the deadliest cyclones to hit the Philippines in the last 12 years, data culled by GMA News Research showed, with the death toll expected to surpass that of typhoon Ondoy two years ago.

A storm surge is an offshore rise of water associated with a low pressure weather system, typically tropical cyclones and strong extratropical cyclones. Storm surges are caused primarily by high winds pushing on the ocean's surface. The wind causes the water to pile up higher than the ordinary  sea level. Low pressure at the center of a weather system also has a small secondary effect, as can the bathymetry of the body of water.

It was Saturday (September 26) morning when the rain was pouring so hard. There was a Typhoon locally named "Ondoy" ("Ketsana" International Name). We had a class then. I went to our school so early because there was no suspension of classes despite of the heavy rains... dWhen I was there the rains continues to pour so heavily... Our class was not yet suspended... It was suspended later when there was flooding already around Metro Manila.. I went home so very wet.. I decided to go to Montalban..