Typhoon Conson

A Trip to the Philippines, is just not complete without living through a Typhoon, ( ) n. A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans. So yep we can now check that one off the list. Tuesday Morning, my friend Cora comes by to ask if we have enough food, because there is probably going to be a Typhoon coming into night. Rain Dance? Definitly not needed !

Tuesday afternoon it started pouring, which occured for a while and then stopped, but then about 11pm the wind picked up, it was the most incredible wind I have ever heard. I thought the windows just might shatter. I couldn't sleep through it, Devin woke up after I had been listening to it for like an hour- and siad "I gues the wind is blowing", yep sure is don't know how you have been missing it.

Then Spencer woke up about 1 am after the power got turned off due to telephone lines being blown down. So we watched the wind, we live on the 15th floor and saw all the lights everywhere had been cut. Pretty interesting.

Then the power went off leaving us in hot and humidness for 24 hours, not very fun to say the least. We couldn't cook, so we had PB and J for Breakfast and Lunch, and then spent the rest of the day at Market Market, and had Pizza for dinner. The power still wasn't on when we went to bed and just as I was about to fall asleep in the hot humid room with not even a fan -the Heavens blessed us and our part of the city got power, I have never been so thankful for air conditioning and electric fans in my life. Do they make fans with batteries? They should!

Playing at Market Market for the day!

We even made the news- thats kind of cool:

MANILA (Reports) – Typhoon Conson sliced through the Philippines' main island of Luzon, killing 22 people, felling trees and snapping transmission lines that could leave millions without power for at least two days, officials said on Wednesday.
Twelve people were injured and 57 reported missing as the storm packing winds of 95 kph (59 mph) roared off toward China.