Year after year, our house experience flood. I stay on the second floor and when my aunt was still staying on the ground floor, her furniture and cabinets were elevated, in anticipation of the flood. When it rains and it starts to flood, like robots, we transfer our cars to an area that is not flooded and my aunt transfers to the second floor. When the flood subsides, we clean and move on. We did the same when typhoons like Milenyo and Ondoy hit Metro Manila.
However, having Julia in our home now made us realize that we cannot deal with natural calamities the same way we used to. During the recent monsoon flooding, we realized that we need to do the following (not just in case of typhoon and flood, but also other natural calamities and emergency situations):
