In every country around the world that we live in, there is a unique characteristic that our place have that it is the climate.

It varies to which part of the world we live in. Such as ours here in the Philippines, we have a tropical rainy climate here. Especially that our region is facing the Pacific Oceans, and through the years we always get caught in the clouds of storms which means rains all over.

And there used to be a pattern that we usually remembered at each time of the year. Such as if it's December and January, it'll be months of rainy days. And when it is the months of April and May, it is usually very hot season in our country.

But these past few years, a lot has changed.

As years have progressed, countries all over the world have shared advancements of technology and that modernization has been taking place. There's a lot of things developed in every parts of the world, however it came with a price.

Lots and lots of our resources, both the renewables and the non-renewables have been consumed in order to build or create create things that are of use to us, humans.

And many of the activities have been creating the factors causing what we have now as climate change. I know that there's a lot of articles right now that talks about the causes of climate change, mostly are by products of men. But I want to share my experience, as a resident of a country that has been greatly affected by climate change.

The climate all around our place has become less predictable

During the 1st week of April, it has been known to us since we were younger that it marks the start of sunny days as it also referred to us as summer back then, but it has been raining. Even before storm Agaton made a landfall in our Province, it has been raining for weeks. We are even baffled thinking, why is it always raining when it is supposed to be our time of summer. And since our town is a rural town, and is tropical, it is normal for us to experience rainfalls throughout the different months of the year but this something that we are not anticipating quite much, as based on experience years back then. And for us to experience Storms, we did not fear the Storms back then. Even if there's a storm signal, we are not afraid because our town usually at outermost parts of the rainclouds of the storm.

But the recent tragedies has made us to be more aware of our surroundings

It was during Typhoon Odette struck our Region, and it was then we really felt fear for our lives as the winds has been so intense with the storm made a landfall and has uprooted not only roofs but even whole house of certain families from Southern Leyte, but still glory to God, there weren't much of casualties back then. But Typhoon Agaton hits different. It was a storm that made a landfall, after our province has been raining for weeks. Which made it easier to make other towns to be flooded, and sadly made landslides to occur in two towns next to us.

And now, we are feeling fear once again

As sudden heavy rainfalls have been downpouring in our town for today. To think, it been a sunny day since Monday. And that we can really say foe ourselves, that climate change has been present these days. Not only that causes inconveniences in our lives, as sudden changes of weather causes sickness to certain people specifically coughs and colds. And that, local rice farmers are probably having a hard time with their harvests these days. As it is supposedly their harvest season, but sudden rainfalls might damage their crops even before they get harvested.

Author's Note

Having been said that we have been heavily affected by the sudden changes in our climate, I really hope that everyone will do their part even for the smallest things that could help preserve our mother nature. It is has been believed that the Earth will be reaching its limit years from now and that everyone has been encouraged to practice every habit that encourages the conservation of mother nature.

To my dear readers, thank you for reading through this piece, hope you could learn something from it.

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