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Young Memories Flowing Under A Storm **August 25, 2022** Happy Thursday everyone. As I have posted yesterday, there was a typhoon coming to Hong Kong so we readied beforehand. We bought food supplies and other necessary things at home as we don't know if the typhoon will stay longer or not. The weather here is always unpredictable anyway. Sometimes typhoon signal #3 seems like #8, and typhoon signal #8 seems like #3 😅. There was a little rain yesterday but the wind started to strengthen in the afternoon. At night, the wind howled banging windows and doors and gushing sounds were creepy. My paranoid boss started to tape our glass door on the balcony as if signal #8 would exceed 10. That's what she felt, lol.
There were no signs of a strong typhoon when I woke up this morning. Later at 10 in the morning, the sun started to show up occasionally and the rain receded but eventually came back. The typhoon signal was lowered to 3, which is like a normal day, so working people were back to work. I wasn't sure though of those going to school this Summer. During my entire stay here in Hong Kong, I encountered a lot of strong typhoons, but only two were the strongest, as for my preference since I came from a country where more than 12 typhoons are coming each year. I survived the strongest typhoon in the Philippines' history and the strongest one here couldn't be compared to it. The strong wind and rain are there but do not have the same impact as in my country. While listening to the gushing sounds of the strong wind last night, and hearing raindrops tapping the roof, memories started to flash back to when I was still younger during typhoons. Some would be concerned, like my mom, if a weather forecast says a typhoon is coming. But for us, kids at home, we were even looking forward to it. Sounds crazy, isn't it? My mom would start to prepare necessary things, stack some food, and candles or kerosene just in case the electricity would be interrupted as it always happens in our country when there is a typhoon. As the typhoon comes, we kids prepare for some fun, haha. If the typhoon lands during the day, we will be happy as we can bathe and play in the rain. That's also an opportunity to save rainwater that could be used in cleaning or even washing our clothes since there was a lack of water supply in our village
*Image from Pexels by* *Thanh Hue Dao* https://images.pexels.com/photos/9487056/pexels-photo-9487056.jpeg?cs=srgb&dl=pexels-thanh-hue-dao-9487056.jpg&fm=jpg We wouldn't mind the rambling thunder in the sky and we would play under the rain until we felt content. Then regrets will just follow later if we catch some cold, lol. We didn't care about it either since our mom was there to remedy our sickness 😅. Since there weren't any gadgets yet, we used to play "*bahay-bahayan*" or make a house in a form of play. We would collect our linens and pillows and we would make a tent using linens by attaching a string to the sides and tying them to our chairs. That will serve as our house and we would play anything under it. Oftentimes, at night after dinner, we would cover our table with linens and underneath would be our playing house.
*Image from Pexels by* *cottonbro* https://images.pexels.com/photos/6183738/pexels-photo-6183738.jpeg?cs=srgb&dl=pexels-cottonbro-6183738.jpg&fm=jpg If there's a strong typhoon in our country, it is expected to experience power interruption. Candles and kerosene lamps were our tools to survive in the dark at night. We used to play hand shadowing by the lamp facing our wall forming shadows of different pets. It was truly entertaining.
*Image from Pexels by* *Anna Nekrashevich* https://images.pexels.com/photos/8058710/pexels-photo-8058710.jpeg?cs=srgb&dl=pexels-anna-nekrashevich-8058710.jpg&fm=jpg While others are panicking because of the typhoon, we kids are having fun, lol. I guess that's the most unforgettable memory of our childhood life and I am certain that many Filipinos here could relate to this 😊. Our country is always experiencing different typhoons and other forms of calamity each year. But that's what makes us resilient and stronger in facing certain unfavorable circumstances and devastations. What about you? What are your memories during stormy days?
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Ahhh naalala ko tuloy pag may bagyo pumupunta kami dun sa tito ko kasi matibay bahay nila kesa samin na dami tulo tas naiiwan dun si papa. Tapos kami ni ate at nagiisang anak nung tito ko na pinsan ko na kaedad lang din pang 2 kong ate naglalaro kami lagi at legit na ganto yung mga feels pag bagyo
Haha... Pinoy feels...iba parn sa kabataan now
We don't have that around here. I can't begin to imagine the magnitude of what you are describing, Janey, it must be really scary. Ordinary strong wind here we are already panicking and running inside not to talk of a typhoon. See how that iron barricade bent! Ah. That's a strong and scary one o, Janey. Your experience in the Philippines prepared you for the ones in HK. Please, stay safe, my dear.
😅.. Not really strong uncle.. Contrary to what we expected 🤣 ..
What? With that, it's still not really strong? Oh boy! That's scary Janey. Wow.
Are you still in the Philippines when Typhoon Yolanda hit the Leyte and Samar? My gosh! That's a crazy typhoon.
Yup..andun ako sa bahay nun..
Yeah! typhoon also have a great memories for me, and we tend to play under the rain as well. I still remember how excited we are after the typhoon exited the place as it would leave a high flood's in our place. Floods are adults headaches, but for us kid's, flood's is our wide swimming pool, hahahahaha. We also collect banana trees as we make it our own boats. We are also excited catching fishes, while the whole place was covered with flood's. .. Anyway my worst experience typhoon there was when the typhoon hits T11, I think that was 2017-2018, not really sure, but that time the sea water literally enters my employers house and we really evacuated.
I think that was 2018.. That was the strongest for me na naencounter dto. Nung 2017 nag T8. Nsa labas kami 🤣 ..
Nakakatakot sa isla kasi yung tubig sa dagat umaapaw, at dahil nasa bukana lang kami talagang ramdam namin pati ang alon😅. Natakot mga amo ko nun kasi kahit baha na may kuryente pa din kami kaya umakyat talaga kami sa 3rd floor. Sa kapitbahay namin😂.
Nsa isla kc kyo.. Kmi sa mataas na part
Haha.. Naalala ko nanaman nung bata kami kapag umuulan talagang naliligo kami tas pagkatapos inum agad ng gamot.. Para hindi magkasakit.. Advance kasi kami magisip.. Hehe
I didn't experience a very strong wind and typhoon so far, but my father says that they have encounter it when they were young. But we used to take a bath in the rain with my neighbors when I was a kid.
Gustong gusto ng may bagyo nuon para walang pasok hahaha
Kami naman madam after the typhoon pupunta sa mga niyugan at mangunguha ng mga nalaglag na niyog taz ibebenta🤣
That using of rain water ang pinaka gusto ko..source of water was hard in our place kaya sobra tuwa ko kapag nag ulan. Puno drum namin eh
Ohhh you're laughing jane but i always feel scared from typhoon as they destroyed the building 😐
I always feel sad to hear about typhoon which creates alot of destruction everywhere. In childhood we were just used to find fun in everything, no matter how hard it be for our elders.
I also played a lot in the rain when I was a kid, me and my sisters could only do that when our mom isn't home because she will whoop our ass if she finds out 😆. A lot of kids did that in the past where life was much simpler but I don't see any of that these days, everyone just stays indoors when it rains and even if there's no electricity, kids these days have phones and laptops to keep them busy
Yeah. They will just slack in their bed and play phones
Aguy madam, sabi na sa gabi dadali yan ee parang ganito lang sa nangyayari dito satin aigooo. Kamusta na weather jan ngayon? Pero mga ala ala talaga ng kabataan natin masaya yan talaga. Walang magagawa ang kulog at kodlat basta ginusto ng mga bata noon haha. Although sure na kagnat ang kasunod mahalaga nag enjoy hahaha
Okay naman na..hndi naman tlga ganun kalakas 🤣