Marikina, after the Ondoy tragedy, is literally rising from the mud. After the flooding, the great problem befell us was cleaning up what’s left from our mud-covered houses.
Yesterday, my husband was telling me if we can already buy some paints for our mud-stricken walls and ceiling. Although we already cleaned our house, we left the part of the wall and the ceiling beyond our reach. At the same time, we still fear that another typhoon will come that may cause great flooding, talk about trauma… In short, we do not want to completely clean-up and remodel because of the fear and trauma for another flooding.
Let me show you what happened to our house visually through this photos –
Terrible, right? It was very sad that for almost a week, we can’t even glimpse our floor tiles. It was hard for us to simply rise from the mud as what we only have were covered by it. What we saved from our meager salaries, we invest on improving our small abode. When people tell you get over it, it’s all gone, I hope they would understand that it is not that easy as “those things” were the only ones we had. Of course we will rise again, but allow us some time to do that. These are hard times, more so for people who do not have any means of “bouncing back” to life.
With God’s love, everything will fall into place once again. Someday.
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