Everyone in Cebu was caught surprised yesterday. I was just in the office working, when people started to gasp as they looked out the window. The winds were so strong that tress were uprooted. In the afternoon around 3pm, the radio said we were at signal number 1, by the time I tried to get home, the streets were flooded and it was signal # 2. I didn't even know until the day after that the storm was named Lando according to the local newspaper.
A lot of people ended up walking along the Banilad road because of the heavy traffic. People go nuts when it rains. Maybe also from panic. A lot of people were injured I heard as billboards fell.
I live in the uptown area and it took us until the next day to have electricity turned back on. Apparently a lot of posts were damaged. Water is another dilemma as well. It will probably take until the end of the week for us to have regular water supply again. Our apartment looked like a refugee camp with lots of trees along the road - no water & electricity.
(image from Sunstar.com.ph)
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