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Earthquakes, Typhoons and Volcanoes ...........

Discussion in 'Migrating to the Philippines' started by CatchFriday, Nov 4, 2021.

  1. Anon220806
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    Anon220806 Well-Known Member

    Mrs Ash has relatives in Negros Oriental. I believe that island was hit badly.
  2. Druk1
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    Druk1 Well-Known Member

    Hope he is OK :like:
  3. CatchFriday
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    CatchFriday British Expat living in Alicante, Spain

    My wife is okay as just heard from her, they lost the family home, and are staying currently in a house with no roof. She was able to contact me through Smart. There is no power but in the town there is a charging place. She is in Surigao City

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  4. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Glad to read that she is OK, Larry. Great news for you :like:
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  5. CatchFriday
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    CatchFriday British Expat living in Alicante, Spain

    I haven't really got into Christmas Eve this year, with wife being away - these pictures are of her parents neighbours. She arrived in the Philippines on the 18th November and had started constructing a wall around her parents home - her parents lived beside a creek in the middle of a barangay and improving their home. The whole barangay was devastated in the Super Typhoon - so rebuild half a million. Her father is the pastor of a small pentecostal church which can be rebuilt for three hundred thousand. Fortunately she had bought another house for 3m in the town prior to the typhoon, but the roof had been taken out and a wall - had to put another 300k p in. She is now sleeping with her parents on the ground floor. - No electricity and she tells me that she now looks like a real filipina again with colour dark brown and stung all over by mosquitos.
    Thank goodness that I didn't go with her!
    No help has been given to the residents in Surigao from the government or NGOs. - a lot of show it seems! Doubtless it went into the hands of their officials, as I am aware of widespread corruption.
    It is very fortunate that my wife was able to sell her house for 6.5m prior to the typhoon, her reason for having a fund to travel back after 4 years away. What providence as we hear that that coastal property received a direct hit from a tree that fell on it, and all the windows were broken...... Providence that she had the cash to rehouse her parents and family.
    I have got her travel insurance and on the contents of her crushed, completely destroyed personal effects can claim upto £1500 - have any of you experience of claiming on travel insurance?

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  6. Jim
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    Jim Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    Just got the power back on since the typhoon. Both of us are fine, some damage to the guest house, some water in the sala (I expected that), two trees in the garden down. It was scary stuff and seemed to go on for ever, power went off about midnight, lots of banging and many electric poles down, we were the last to get power back on in the neighborhood. At least the barangay municipal let us charge our electric devises when they got their power back on.
    Hows things back on in Blighty? Need to catch up on the news and footie.
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    Jim Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    Got power back on just two hours ago Christmas day. Both of us are fine, some damage to our guest house but nothing serious, electric lines down all over the place, trees uprooted.
    All our food in the chest freezer defrosted, wife cooked what she could and salvage, we gave some to the locals.
    Yep comms were off with the power.
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  8. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Glad to hear that you're safe and well, Jim.
    Sounds like it was quite traumatic for you and everyone else near you.
    Hope the rebuilding is not too strenuous for you and that your house is fixed soon.

    It feels cold in the UK today 5 deg C

    Lots of games in the Prem have been postponed due to Covid.

    The $10bn James Webb Space Telescope will be launched on a European Ariane rocket from French Guiana today with luck.
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    Really happy to see you post again, to know that you are both ok.

    For what its worth after something like that have a Merry Christmas, at least Santa brought you some electricity.
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  10. CatchFriday
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    CatchFriday British Expat living in Alicante, Spain

    The disaster has pushed the prices up - generators are double the price…..
  11. aposhark
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    Those photos are not a pretty sight, CatchFriday :(.
    At least your wife is safe and, although it is easy for me to say, it could have been worse.
    Best wishes that she gets her life back to a semblance of order soon :)
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  12. aposhark
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    If you ever get a generator, make sure it sits on a an empty tyre (no wheel inside) as vibration can shake the nuts and bolts off :eek:
    Using ropes to raise it off the ground is also an option but harder to do.
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  13. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Get a Honda generator it will probably last forever :D
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  14. Jim
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    Jim Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    Wish I had bought a solar generator and attached some PV panels to them. Had another brown-out last night, only lasted 10 minuets but had me thinking here we go again.
    A lines-man got electrocuted and lost his life restoring the power near Dumaguete. Christmas day. R.I.P.
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  15. CatchFriday
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    CatchFriday British Expat living in Alicante, Spain

    Very difficult to get a generator in Surigao now _ which one do you suggest from this list


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