Jesus calmed the storm #Glendaph

Much has been posted about Typhoon Glenda and as of this writing, we do not have electricity for over a week now and we have intermittent water supply.

It is during these times that people go back to the basics. Lord, despite the typhoon, please let us have water (supply). Then came mobile signal and internet signal, then electricity. The sales of generators have risen up, that it gets out of stock the moment new stocks came in. When I was young, only businesses (owners) and rich people have generators, now people can afford it. Not that it has gotten cheaper. Anyway...

As I was praying really hard during the storm and my sister was in our other house near UPLB, there's this one verse that keeps on entering my mind: "Jesus Calms the Storm".

Mark 4:35-41New International Version (NIV)

Jesus Calms the Storm35 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” 36 Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat.There were also other boats with him. 37 A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. 38 Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”39 He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.40 He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?”
41 They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”

And he did. Hours later after I slightly passed out, the storm calmed down. I wrapped my phone in plastic and started taking photos of what happened outside the house.

I took off the plastic wrapped around my phone to take better photos.

I prayed: "Lord, please, not the windshield. It's very expensive (to have it repaired)."

And here's what I got. My heart can take this.

I thought our little cabana would be roofless by now, but it was not.

Stuff thrown everywhere. I found our chair at the back.

My mother and I got into the car to rush to my sister in UP. Here's the guard house (photo by mom)

Photo taken at the bridge.

Thank you Lord, we got friendly neighbors to help us out. We managed to restore our tree with assistance.

 Almost all roads are not passable. In pili drive alone, there are 11 pili trees that were uprooted. We went to UPLB to bring one of the guys who helped us for anti- tetanus injection. I waited at the area of the Japanese Nihon Koen and took some photos.

I did not take much because I don't want to use up all my phone's battery, even if I didn't have signal.

To this date, UPLB is working over time for the campus clean up. Photos below shows pic taken last week, the right one shows pic taken early this morning.

Right now its business as usual in our office. Thank goodness, we have a generator and intermittent internet connection. Better than none, I tell you.

Remember when I was supposed to go to Thailand? It's a good thing I did not push through with the trip because otherwise, I wouldn't be home when Typhoon Glenda happened.

I would probably be having a nervous breakdown somewhere at the airport.

I'm starting to think my cancelled and wasted plane tickets are blessings in disguise, because last year I was supposed to go to Bohol for my 30th birthday, then Bohol had an earthquake before I even booked my hotel.

Thank you Lord.

(More photos of typhoon Glenda, by this photographer that I saw taking photos that day. )