not yet a typhoon, just a "tropical cyclone" that right now is hitting the Visayas.
Due to hit Manila and our region late tonite and early tomorrow morning. We are signal 3.
As of now, Paeng still packs maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometers per hour (kph) and gustiness of up to 130 kph.
The winds are not that bad but the rains mean flooding.
Metro Manila floods all the time (it's the sewer system: inadequate and often clogged with trash). But Joy has a trade fair there today but hey, typhoons and street floods happen all the time, so no problem. (/s).
But since it will probably hit south of here, it means we don't have to worry about being downstream from the rain. (when the rain runoff from the moutains north of here is huge, often the irrigation dams have to drain water to prevent overtopping, which then causes flooding down stream. Luckily usually the dams survive the problem: I only remember one minor dam that collapsed and cause minor flooding here since we moved here).
We did get the rice harvested, so that is good (although not a good harvest because of the last typhoon) but whether we can get it dry is another thing. If you don't dry the rice properly, it will get fungus growing and it will spoil the rice.
Sigh.
In the meanwhile, my backup generator is at the farm and the large generator still has problems, so hopefully we won't have another prolonged brownout.
Ah, life in a tropical paradise!
Sigh.
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update: The maid just came and said they are planning to open the irrigation dam (to prevent overtopping and collapse), so are evacuating the neighborhood near the river where it often floods.
We are on high ground, and have a second story so should be okay.
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update: No electricity all day but it came back on at 11 pm.
Gusts of wind and heavy rain on and off.
It's now midnight and we are okay.
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