I was totally surprised yesterday while I was checking out some pictures of typhoon Ondoy's devastation in Facebook when I encountered this particular set of pictures taken by a High School friend of mine living in Marulas, Valenzuela.
Marulas is known for its notorious floods even in the slightest rain. But the recent typhoon proved to be more than just your ordinary storm especially to the people of Marulas. And when I saw these pictures, I thought the messed up vehicle and the one person there, looked very familiar.
It was Tito Boyet's delivery van that was lying sideways along the highway and a driver-cousin trying to salvage some raw materials for their factory as he could among many others whose vehicles got stalled and washed away by the recent flood. It is really heartbreaking to see that even my co-members were not spared. Remember that some of MSC members got stranded in their workplaces and another one even walked for long hours just to get home.
But thankful enough, there were no serious casualties. God is good to us. There may be times that things like these happen. Catastrophic events that could destroy everything that we hold dear. But if we try to dig deep into the root of all these, we might realize that maybe, just maybe, we have something to do with it after all...
God promised Noah in Genesis that He will no longer wipe out the world through means of flood. God did not permit this flood to happen... We did...
Sunday... typhoon's left Manila (but not yet in the provinces, sigh...), but it is not reason for us not to celebrate a special day of one of our colleagues. 
