Fleeing Our Home

When I get out of bed this morning, I start to prepare breakfast for everyone. My sister go outside and scream and call for everyone to hurry come look at the street. So everyone rush outside to her and oh my god the whole street is under water and it is coming into our place. We are all scared, my friend and I decide that it is starting to get very dangerous so we must prepare to leave the house if necessary, if the water keep coming. We start to put all the furniture on to tables and anything that is up high. The rain is still very hard and never look like it is going to stop. By 9am the water is only one cm from coming into our home. Then the water start to go down, our neighbours say, that is because the tide is going out. My friend and I decide to go to barangay hall to find out what is happening and to get information. When we start to walk into the street the water come up to my waist and there is some much rubbish. We wade threw the water in the street until we get to barangay hall. We walk maybe 400 mtrs and all the way the water was up to our waist or a little higher. At the barangay hall the police are there and I ask what is happening and he say that people are leaving the area because the water is expected to go higher tonight when it is high tide again. I ask him will there be anyone to help us later if we need help and he say he don't know. It look to me that no one knows what to do. There is no plan to help the people, they are just advising people to leave if they can. We go home again and my friends and sister have already put the furniture that they can lift up high. At 9.30am they cut the water and at 11am the electricity is cut. We all just sit in the house and have a little prayer session and pray that the water not get any higher. My friend whose house it is has her sister and baby staying with us. We are all scared for the baby because when it is dark there will be no lights and if we have to leave in the middle of the night in a hurry it would be very dangerous for baby. Because we will not be able to see in the dark and maybe the water is very deep and very strong flowing. I say to my friend much better we leave now, while it is still daylight because it is to dangerous for the baby. My friend agree so we all gather some small things like toiletries and some spare clothes and we leave our home about 5pm. That night we stay in a hotel, there are 5 of us in the one room plus baby but we have no choice. The only thing what matters is that we are all safe, material things can be replaced but people cannot. Until next time God Bless and take care!