Day 6

July 24, 2012

We went to bed about 11pm and the Typhoon wind and rains had already started so I knew it was going to be an awful night of sleep. Everyone had downplayed the weather and told us there was nothing to worry about so all night, when I thought the windows were going to break, that is what I kept telling myself. It wasn’t until the morning that we say how bad it was. There was quite a bit of damage.

 At 2am Joel woke up and told me he was going to check the meter. I thought he was a little confused with what he was saying but that he was just going to the bathroom. When he didn't come back for 10 minutes I went looking for him. He didn't answer when I called his name in the apartment so I thought maybe he had stepped out to check on the storm. I went to the bathroom on my outside and I left the lights off so it would not wake me up. While I was in the bathroom, in the dark, I saw a strange figure start to open the curtain. I started screaming and turned on the lights to find that it was Joel just standing in the shower. I asked him what he was doing and without skipping a beat said "checking the meter" and went right back to the bedroom and straight to sleep.

We woke up at 5:30 and started cleaning and rearranging every room. We found that the lights of the city were too bright in our room and with the typhoon reaching 9/10 it was very noisy so we traded out the rooms. With 450 square feet moving anything is difficult. I was able to get Joel to help clean the baseboards which was nice because with the humidity it creates lots of mold down there. I had to bleach the walls, turn on the space heater and the dehumidifier to help.

I did my first load of laundry today. I must say that I hate that I have to hang dry everything. With the humidity it takes things forever to dry. I was able to get 3 loads complete.

Tomorrow I hope to be able to get out and buy a few more items. Joel thinks it is a necessity to have a coffee maker and I need a toaster oven. We only have a 2 burner range which limits my cooking.