Metro Manila is trying to kill us
Thursday morning, it was fine.
1045 Taxi ride from Rockwell, Makati to Timog Avenue, Quezon City: 25 minutes
1115 Drive from Timog, QC to UERMMC to visit friend who had just given birth (Since our task force of Mentats has determined that we are not contagious): 15 minutes
Then it rains and everything goes to hell.
Photo from Interaksyon: Baha pero walang bagyo.
1430 Taxi ride from Tomas Morato QC to Rockwell, Makati: 1 hour 15 minutes in rising floodwater. The driver avoided heavy traffic on EDSA by taking New Manila-San Juan-Mandaluyong route, which may have been worse. Flash floods in Mandaluyong, particularly in Barangka on the way to the bridge leading to Rockwell. For one moment we thought the cab’s engine would die and we would have to walk in the flood.
Arrive at Rockwell and find that floodwaters have entered the first basement level at Power Plant, the row of restaurants. The staff are bailing out water from McDonald’s to the fruit stand. The pianist plays on.
1625 Waiting in taxi queue: 1 hour 30 minutes. We use the time to make notes for a column, email work confirmations, campaign to assure people that our brain is working (Anyone not convinced can attend joint lecture on Russian literature with Teddy-Wan Kenobi).
1850 Home. If we had walked we would’ve been home at 1635 but we were afraid to run into a flash flood.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
