After barely three hours of sleep, I woke up at 4:30 in the morning to prepare breakfast for my eldest son, Marco, who has an early morning class. I felt that the wind was gusty to a major degree and there's the rain to contend with. I switched on the television to check if classes will be suspended as well (before my youngest daughter, Kara, went to sleep, she announced to all that she doesn't have classes the next day as the Department of Education has already cancelled classes for pre-school, elementary and high school on account of typhoon Pedring) for the collegiate level. My other children, Marco and Nina, are in college. Upon hearing that the school administrators of the different colleges have already issued a cancellation, I hastily went back to bed to recover hours of lost sleep. I slept soundly and woke up late in the morning though there was an electrical outage as several trees have been uprooted and branches have fallen that wrecked havoc on electrical cables. It was a nice feeling being able to experience a good night's sleep once again without the aid of an aircon.
The nice feeling of sleeping the night away without electricity has been short-lived though. Preparing for brunch posed a problem. I badly needed to reheat last night's leftover food using the microwave. Reheating food using the gas stove means that I have to wash big pots and pans in the dark afterwards. Dusk has arrived and still electricity has not been restored yet in our area. My children called several stores for food delivery as it is so difficult to prepare and cook food in the dark. Nobody answered their calls. My hubby and daughter instead prepared dinner of leftover food (again) and hotdogs (have to be consumed before they become stale) and fried rice. We have to consume almost two tubs of ice cream in one seating before it becomes soupy.
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Fallen trees
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The powerless day dragged on for hours, to be exact, twelve hours. We found ourselves looking for things to do as all our laptops were reduced to useless appendages without electricity. Mobile phones have erratic signals and cannot be used to send emails as well. Life in our house practically halted to a standstill. I thought if solar panels are affordable, then our over-dependence on electricity will be a thing of the past. I cannot emphasize enough that the Philippines is staring at the big potential of solar energy as an alternative source of energy. Should the private sector take the lead in this endeavor or does the burden rest on the government's shoulders?
After barely three hours of sleep, I woke up at 4:30 in the morning to prepare breakfast for my eldest son, Marco, who has an early morning class. I felt that the wind was gusty to a major degree and there's the rain to contend with. I switched on the television to check if classes will be suspended as well (before my youngest daughter, Kara, went to sleep, she announced to all that she doesn't have classes the next day as the Department of Education has already cancelled classes for pre-school, elementary and high school on account of typhoon Pedring) for the collegiate level. My other children, Marco and Nina, are in college. Upon hearing that the school administrators of the different colleges have already issued a cancellation, I hastily went back to bed to recover hours of lost sleep. I slept soundly and woke up late in the morning though there was an electrical outage as several trees have been uprooted and branches have fallen that wrecked havoc on electrical cables. It was a nice feeling being able to experience a good night's sleep once again without the aid of an aircon.
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