Isewan typhoon. The most notorious one which attacked Tokai district in Showa 34 (1959). The lowest air pressure was 894hPa, maximum wind speed around its center was 90m/s (measured by US forces).
Being soaked by rain the family climbed the stone steps at the shrine and arrived at under the shrin’s roof. Their house was almost at the foot of the step. And beyond their house, we was able to see Kurijima river run. From the river the strange sounds came. At first they were faint. More and more they got loud and the number of them got many. Strange base sounds. Their second son noticed them first.
'Mammy, what is that ?’
'What? You say about what ’
The sounds got loud more and more and got many. The sounds like giants’ footsteps marching in the underground world.
'That is,,’ Masayuki-san tried to answer but he could not continued his words.
Extreme rain caused extreme flow. And it pushed stones and rocks in the river. Eventually even huge stones could not keep themselves staying still. They started to move. Those rolling rocks collided other stones. Then these stones started to move and collided. It was tremendous chain reaction. Even a person who had lived mountain area for long years seldom see such a scene. It was fearful experience.
The family waited for dawn without any words. Chikako-san prayed in her mind 'Please help us, my god, the god of our village ’. And she looked up the shrine’s eaves.
5,098 people were killed by this disaster. The morning light came but with huge number of victims.
Because of this terrible typhoon the authorities made a embankment along Kurijima river. We can see it today, as a important part of Mitsuhashi’s landscape.
Days and years had passed like an arrow. Their four children grew up soundly. Boys made swimming goggles by themselves and went to Kurijima river next to their house, to spear fishes with their friends. Girls loved drawing. They drew pictures of princess and ladies on the walls in the kitchen or washroom ! Boys preferred to affix seals which are small free gifts, when they bought chewing gum they can get them. Now we can find some anime hero’s seals pasted on pillar in this house.
So I’ll cut to the chase on this since a lot of people are dying, drowning, and screaming for help in Cagayan and Isabela, Philippines. A lot of them have also been stranded and are standing on their rooftops as we speak.
I’m here to post a collection of donation drives that I’ve gathered online. If we can’t help them physically, we can at least make sure they have monetary assistance, food and clothing once they’re evacuated.
This is how Cagayan looks, from recent photos (not mine)
TW: screams and shouts for help
HOW TO HELP
DONATION DRIVES
Please feel free to add on this post for any other ways to help.
For context:
The Philippines has been hit by three consecutive typhoons this month alone: Quinta, Rolly (Goni internationally) and Ulysses. It’s been hitting nearly the same areas, which has made them even more vulnerable now that they’re still recovering from the previous typhoons. Our mountain ranges couldn’t shield us from this due to heavy quarrying and deforestation.
That said, these aren’t the only places in need of assistance. But these are the places in urgent need of help. And we’re trying to do as best as we can with what little we have.
I’ll update this post from time to time for full transparency.
A woman uses her phone while wearing a plastic poncho along Victoria Harbour during heavy winds and rain brought on by Typhoon Hato in Hong Kong on August 23, 2017. Typhoon Hato smashed into Hong Kong on August 23 with hurricane force winds and heavy rains in the worst storm the city has seen for five years, shutting down the stock market and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights. Anthony WALLACE / AFP
Hello everyone. I haven’t been updating on personal things too much recently as I’ve been avoiding doing so. But I feel as if it’s important for me to document this as well as ask for help.
On December 16, 2021 at 8pm the category 5 supertyphoon “Odette” rampaged and tore through the entirety of East, West, and Central Visayas in the Philippines in a span of 5 hours, and me, my family and my friends were caught in the middle of it. Please google it for information. I’m unable to gather some due to limited connectivity.
Everybody I know here is currently gathering themselves to clean up and if possible, ask for aid, as the destruction the storm had caused is unimaginable. Things currently look beyond repair. Water supply, electricity, internet access are all crippled and I am only using borrowed connections now to make a status update.
Currently I have clients I have unfinished work for, and I’m so sad to say I will be completely unable to work on your material until things come back to normal. I’ll be going back to my family home until then just to get myself at ease a bit, and even then my family home had sustained some substantial damage. With any luck we will be trying to run some minimal power and internet connections there just to be up to date with things.
If anybody is willing to help, please DM me here or contact me at my email [email protected]
It’s not just me who is asking, it’s my family as well. I am willing to work on art commissions for monetary aid, but chances are I won’t be able to respond anyway because of limited connectivity. I should be able to update if that option for me is more workable when we can finally run some power. But if anybody wants to donate to my Paypal you can send an amount to me to the same address above: [email protected]
So far our damage assessment to our family home and lost assets is around the equivalent is around $700-$1000 USD and that’s barely scratching it. All the money I receive will go to the restoration of our home and acquisition of consumables like food, gas, toiletries, etc.
Until I’m able to connect and see my socials again I hope some folks at least hear me and my family’s outcry. We’re all living in the dark until things come back to normal. Please help us.
Yesterday, typhoon number 26 passed Japan. It was said to be the most powerful typhoon in years. Typhoon caused several deaths and tens of people are still missing. Flooding and landslides caused a lot of damages.
Our family got through the typhoon without any damage. Trains stopped, so it was difficult to get to work. Luckily my wife got a day off. But I had to go to work. It took 3,5 hours to get to work, when it normally takes only an hour. When I got to the office, I was seven hours late.
My boss just complained to me, even though the fact I did my best to get to work, instead of having a day off.
monsoon (1580), via the Dutch monssoen, via the Portuguese monçao, from the Arabic mawsim, meaning “a time of year, the appropriate season.”
typhoon (1550), from the Greek typhon or Arabic tufan, both meaning “a whirlwind or storm.”
Wait… so the Chinese/Japanese 台風 (tai fung / taifuu) is a coincidence? Wow.
Thanks for bringing this up! It got me interested, and I found out that “typhoon” is a very inter-linguistic word! In Europe, “typhoon” was introduced by the Italians and Portuguese who visited the East Indies. The Arabic طوفان (ṭūfān) itself is speculated as either being originally Semitic, from the Greek Τυφῶν (Tuphōn), or from the Sinitic (Chinese) 颱風. طوفان occurs in the Quran, making it at least 1400 years old in Arabic. Τυφῶν, as a mythological creature, is at least 2700 years old. I am unsure of how old the Chinese form is, but regardless, the word really got around! Some of the language families it is found in include:
But of course, these words all derive from a variety of sources: Polish from German, Russian from English, Japanese from Chinese, Persian from Arabic, etc.
to all my filipino mutuals and supporters living in the philippines, i hope you’re all safe and alright from the recent super typhoon. the aftermaths are terrible especially in certain places in visayas and mindanao. please prioritize your safety and recovery!
(ingat kayo diyan! amping jud mo pirme kay murag wasak kaayo tanan karon. hoping that we all get through this and that all of us at least get to spend christmas with electricity and water. typhoon odette/rai has ravaged so many cities—including mine—but i’m lucky to be one of those whose home wasn’t severely damaged. our net was also restored yesterday, thankfully. but others weren’t so fortunate. )
please, please, please pray for the philippines and if you can, please support/donate to fundraisers that will help the victims of the typhoon. the situation is terrible and most provinces are currently in a state of calamity.
(edit:i’ll attach videos & photos from facebook—credits to their owners—showing the heartwrenching state of various cities right now. warning: graphic content in the links. there’s lack of media coverage about the real situation. almost everything has been wrecked, especially in central visayas and the eastern visayas-mindanao areas. people are struggling to find clean water and electricity may be gone for weeks. many don’t have roofs over their heads now. lines to gasoline stations are kilometers long and as of the moment, stores are closed and if they are, due to lack of net connections, they’re only accepting cash—which is hard since many currently can’t withdraw their money because again, their networks have been cut. it’s chaos here and personally, i’m still trying to get updates from friends/family in those areas.)
Here below are videos (natural disaster trigger warning ahead). I just… I’m crying just seeing what happened and how some people just brush it off like nothing’s happened. People died and people are starving. So many are homeless and have lost their families and they don’t have electricity or clean water. I keep seeing videos on my TikTok and Facebook and it breaks my heart. It’s like the typhoon flattened everything it passed through and it destroyed multiple cities.
You can also find in the comments more ways to donate (e.g. PayPal), especially for those who are from foreign countries/are located internationally. Any help or exposure is appreciated.
thank you, guys. your help would mean a lot to the victims and their families, especially so that they can spend the holidays at least with their basic necessities!
Batang Hamog level unlocked! But kidding aside, I wasn’t expecting that this will be the way how I will exit the the tear-drop shape island of Siargao (Not permanently). Everyone was caught off-guard and by surprise when #typhoonodette hit the entire island so bad. It literally turned the surfing paradise into a sort of complete wasteland in less than five hours on that fateful day of the 16th of December 2021 even my own home was not spared. This was me 3 days after typhoon Odette to pick up my transportation which I left uphill of Tawin tawin where we evacuated since majority of the roads and streets were blocked by fallen branches and uprooted trees after the storm. It took me six days of no electricity, no network, no water from the tap but to fetch water from the deep well to take a bath, no proper sleep, six days of cigarette and water diet since I literally don’t have the appetite to eat proper food though that there is really something proper to eat to finally decide that it’s time for me to go back to Makati temporarily. It was an amazing, nurturing and nourishing almost a year of experience with you Siargao. I am not bidding farewell nor abandoning you. I will comeback once I am mentally and emotionally recovered. SALAMAT KARAJAW, Siargao!
Ps. Thank you to all of my friends whom I consider my family in the island who supported me emotionally, physically, and mentally during the time that I was a complete disaster post-typhoon. @iambobbiethegreat (Mindy and Mother) @xiannemische @gui_spain @snarkynippy @the.lone.lioness Ron @jpearlieeee
For those who want to extend their help to Siargao in order for our home island to recover, follow @tindogsiargao to see ways and means to help the island. . . . . . . #siargao #siargaoisland #supertyphoon #survivor #resilience #ashtanga #ashtangi #riseup #recover #helpsiargao #pinoygram #grammerph #igersmanila #yogi #wewillrise #strength #help #gratitude #nourish #trauma #thankful #grateful #iamalive #tindogsiargao #philippines #fateful #typhoon #letushelp #surfingparadise (at Tawin Tawin Siargao Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYL-HrJvUPt/?utm_medium=tumblr
