Sendong sent some Missiles

by Jan Mikko Canarias

            It was evening of the 17^th of December, the heavy rainfall and the cold weather was conclusive for sleeping. Iliganons were deep asleep never did they dreamed of what will came to them that night. Slowly the water begun to increase, then it became fast, until it rushed from the mountains to the villages near the rivers. Many people hurriedly climb up their roofs, some drown while sleeping, and some were washed away by the flood and screaming for help. The supposed to be silent night became a fright night as screams and cries for help gone with the sound of the rushing river.

           They came like Missiles. Typhoon Sendong sent some missiles. Most of the people I interviewed revealed a common demolishing factor. These were the missiles that came along with the mud and water, logs. Many houses could not get destroyed but because of these missiles hundreds of infrastructures were washed away. People were also hit by these raging logs; they were like missiles, torpedoes along with the raging flood. An evacuee accounted that she and her daughter were hit by a missile; luckily she survived but her daughter was caught and drowned. She saw her daughter washed away, heard it screamed for help, saw how the log pushed it away.

             At daybreak, the water level begun to drop. Iligan City’s villages were washed away. Cars piled up, twisted and drenched. The once populated river banks got deserted by mud. Dead bodies soaked in mud. Scattered around the areas were the missiles, the major culprit of lives. At the coast line more missiles floated along with the tides and waves. 

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