In this tragedy, I have a lot of memories that I can’t forget up to this time. During this tragedy, I was at home. I observed the weather was not quietly good, it seemed to be a sad person, full of dark clouds all over the sky and I heard a thunder. But we didn’t know that it was a cyclone that would land at the upper parts of Tungonan Mountain. Were somebody said that was the main causes of the Ormoc Flashflood. It was a very worst tragedy hit in Ormoc City, which some of the families living in Ormoc City Proper was faced out of this unexpected tragedy. After the flashfloods, it was a challenge and big problems to the people and the officials because of casualties were needed to be address. The remaining relatives were difficult to look their love ones belonging to the casualties, because some of their died bodies were mixed to the clay and some were not easily found because due to the heavy flow of water going to the sea were others landed in some islands nearer in the city. After a few days from the tragedy hiked I was observed and experienced were some of the generous hearted people were putting their hands to help the people in the city by giving a relief goods.
Joel F. Lorecto
1991 FLASH FLOOD
Early in the morning of Novermber 8, 2013, the strongest typhoon Yolanda landed in some parts of Visayas. But the area that was heavily affected was Eastern Visayas where some of the houses and infrastructures were damaged and stapled down. And also there were lives passed by due to the strong winds and a tsunami brought about by this typhoon. In my life, I experienced a lot of typhoons which busted our country, but the strongest ever typhoon was Yolanda. During the typhoon I was in my classroom to keep important things. A few minutes after entering my classroom, I observed that there were some falling branches of jackfruits at the back of my room going to my classroom roof; I was scared that time because I was alone. The evacuees were in the other building nearer to my classroom. What I did, I was getting out of my classroom to go home, two meters from the door of my classroom, the door was lifted behind it, it was already collapsed and stapled down and all my classroom materials and important things can no longer be use. I was thankful to our Almighty God because if I was not able to go home maybe I died under the collapsed classroom. After the Yolanda typhoon, it was a big problem because there were no electricity, food, clothes, and shelter. But there were generous people who helped us to stand a little bit after the calamity.
Joel F. Lorecto
TYPHOON YOLANDA
At exactly 4:03 pm of July 6, 2017, an earthquake 6.5 gave damage to the houses, infrastructure, and lives and caused fear to all the people in Ormoc City. This earthquake noted a lot of aftershocks where some people and students were cramming out of these aftershocks and the classes were suspended. That was the strongest earthquake I’ve experienced in my life. During the earthquake I was there in my classroom; I was just cleaning all over the room. I did not expect that there would be an earthquake, because before the earthquake struck I heard like a thunder and it went silent, that was the time it started shaking which caused fear, but the things I did were just praying to our Almighty God and run to the school plaza which I thought was safe for me. After all, I felt worried to my sister, who was schooling senior high school at the city, because I was thinking that there were buildings which were collapsed and maybe she was not safe from the falling heavy things or else there was a tsunami, those things in my mind created negative expectations.
Joel F. Lorecto
2017 EARTHQUAKE
