Thanks for your concern.
It's Saturday morning now and we're in Baguio, about an hour away from Burgos.
We recieved a text message at 4am that our ponds would soon overflow with the heavy rains.
We left Burgos last night at 5pm under heavy rain with the expectation to return after the storm.
At that time our large breeding pond was at about 5% of capacity and the smaller segregating ponds were at about 80%.
My concern at the moment is for the soil to give way around the perimeter of all the ponds. The worst of the storm is scheduled to arrive today and we'll return tomorrow, Sunday.
As for Manila, yes it is truly a mess there. Our old house is under about a foot of water and will surely be rising.
Manila is a very old city with bad drainage in all but the newest most expensive neighborhoods. Imagine 300 years worth of built up cockroaches and rat crap flowing through your front room. That's what I'm expecting in the coming 24 hours at the old house.
I'm looking at the whole situation there at the old house with a certain amount of satisfaction as we left under strained circumstances.
My experiences with these people have changed my entire experience here and not for the good.
Maybe it was the downturn in the economy that changed them into greedy envious people but they changed completely. That's a big disappointment to me personally but better to see their real intent now than later.
I'll be saving my single peso coins to donate to their recovery at the old house.
Life's a bitch. Sometimes even when you lie and cheat to get something nice it turns out be just dogshit. Just what you deserve.
I'll keep you posted.