As of this morning, our little area here in Bangkal, Makati got power and phone lines back up. This was after dozens of trees have been cleared as well as a couple of really huge (as in tonnes!) of billboard steel frames crashing into electric posts and houses (including a bus in EDSA).
Lots of lessons learned here…
- I can bear living without electricity but a day without water, even just for taking a bath, is almost unbearable.
- It’s more comfortable to sleep in the car with the aircon, than sleep in a comfortable bed without one.
- Scented candles aren’t just for decorations.
- Even in times like these, people can still be very entrepreneurial — my brother was charging Php20 for people to charge their cellphones in the car and he made a few hundreds bucks out of it. Gas money!
- Don’t stock too much food in the ref — we had to cook everything on the second day. Adobo was the popular meal because it lasts several days without getting spoiled.
- It pays to have wifi accounts — thanks to my blog sponsors, AirborneAccess and Globe WiZ, I was able to get online for a couple of hours a day. And I thought Smart GPRS would have gotten its week of fame — naaahhh.
My car was practically my office the past couple of days and I couldn’t even get myself to post a snapshot of it here. *hehehe*
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Dang. All our freezer’s contents got spoilt. Well, except for the tocino (sealed), that is. We weren’t able to cook the food because we had to take the kids to a cooler place. And we didn’t expect the outage to last that long.
Anyway, I rant about Meralco here.
naku ako din. adobo for breakfast, for lunch and for dinner.
tsk tsk
I saw that billboard responsible for the delay of your power restoration. Fortunately, our water is not dependent on electric power source. I can live without electricity but please, let there be water. Ugh, how did you survive?
There was a poso a block away and my brother goes back and forth whenever I want to take a bath. We drove up to Tagaytay for some fresh air and had to pay 300 bucks for a 3-hour apartelle just to get a nice and decent shower.
When I couldn’t “make tiis” anymore, I checked in at the Renaissance beside GB3. Dang expensive, puno na kase sa iba eh.
I guess my parents and siblings were lucky. They had water the whole time and they had electricity by friday yata.
ughh renaissance sucks bad