My Experience with LP Agaton

My Experience with Agaton

I started writing  this article on the date  of January  23, 2014. The second week of our travail with Low Pressure Agaton.

        So, it's been two weeks of rain here in Butuan and the whole CARAGA region. Not to mention all the other regions that are also affected by the rains. But thankfully Agaton is not like his other famous typhoons. Agaton is more rains but his winds does not blow with anger. Most of the time he only showers us lightly. However, because of the duration of his stay, these light rains cause floods. The only day that I remembered that he gave out his strongest rain was on a single day last week. Was that Saturday? Or Friday? But anyway, I don't know if in other places, Agaton is more cruel. I can see on the internet that some Houses, near the river, the water are up to the roof.

The light to heavy rains though caused the water below our house to rise more than usual. .Before the rains, the water was  only hip-high and has now reached to neck-high. Also,the water does not usually reach to  the front of the house.

       

   Here in our barangay (Maon), we are experiencing black out  since Monday (January 20, 2014) because one of our electricity poles fell down in the water. I heard from one of our neigbors that went to ANECO (Agusan Del Norte Electric Cooperative Inc.)  will fix it on Saturday. I just want to ask, why can't they do it sooner? Service is slow. Our leaders here are slow. Barangay Pangabugan also has the same problem. We just don't function well without lights during nights. Boredom is also killing us. I can't even do my job through the internet. People are complaining now. No lights, no water.

In times of these, the government has to provide basic necessities and the most common is food. It's usually just canned foods and kilos of rice in a bag. The quantity depends on the barangay.

Update: January 28, 2014

My grown-up cousin did a surprise visit  to our house on the early evening just last Sunday for dinner. He reported to us while on his bus ride (he came from Cagayan de Oro) that he can see the landslides in the rural parts between our city (Butuan) and Cagayan de Oro. In parts of Carmen, he can see them. Also, news reported that more than 40 deaths are reported here in northern Mindanao. However, I believe that the citizens of Butuan , the whole CARAGA region and the rest of the other regions are blessed to have not experienced a typhoon but just a Low Pressure named Agaton.