Safety From Flood

    Today, I woke up startled. I realized I didn’t hear my phone’s alarm, probably due to lack of sleep the previous days. I was panicking because I still have numerous, very long cases to read, and I cannot miss work today. I was already absent once this week, and absences are very, very bad for the income. I rushed finishing the case digests for Persons, trying hard to write legibly without much success. I decided not to read the cases for Constitution anymore and just to try my luck today. I proceeded preparing to go to work.
    It has been raining hard since last night, but I didn’t think it was anything out of the ordinary. Upon reaching the main road, everything was flooded!!! The vastness seemed to be like that of Myrtle Beach Resorts, only the murky, blackish, and dirty water hardly compares to the clear water of a Myrtle Beach Resort.
    Trying to cross the street even with a car was pointless. The car wouldn’t make it, and it would have been more annoying to be trapped inside a car. Besides, the person I talked to said that the water was waist-deep further down the road. I thought of how difficult this day would be to so many Metro Manila residents: the students, the employees, the jeepney drivers, the street vendors, the beggars, and the homeless.
    I had no choice but to go back home. Lucky for me, I was not stranded, but there were so many people who were stranded so far from home. I hope everyone would be safe today, if not from accident, but from the sickness caused by the rain and the flood. I am now in my bed disheartened. But even if this place was not as grand as Myrtle Beach Accommodations, at least I am safe home, for now.