Buying breakfast and pan de sal during a typhoon

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This morning, this post braved the heavy rain and strong winds to buy pansit and pan de sal from my suki near wawa.   The vendors praised me for braving the bad weather to buy.  I too praised them for having business as usual.   Typhoon Enteng's wrath?

I feared though for the BB, and headset bearing.    Well, I wiped the bike dry and trained the electric fan to dry the moisture.  

The bre month was greeted by great floods in Rizal

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The "bre" month, September which heralds the start of the Christmas season was unusual -  it was a floody welcome for the month  The whole of Rizal (almost) was flooded:    Baras, Pililla, Tanay,  Mabitac, Cainta, Rodriguez, San Mateo, Cainta.

In less than 12 hours, the rain came and torrents and places which did not get flooded were inundated.

Those places are the places we use to bike.   How could our landscape turn into scene of destruction and deluge for such a short while?

NDRRMC was constantly texting through NTC the yellow and orange rainfall warning. This accompanied the arrival of Typhoon Enteng which was by 7 last night was all ready in Bicol.   Many would have disregarded them.  But they were accurate.  Thank you PAG -ASA, NDRRMC.  

Let us pray for the safety of those who are affected by the flood.  

(The PAOCC chief navigated his way through the flood on a cabinet.  (That is why people of his level are called cabinet officials?)  

What could have been the cause?   Natural -  act of God.  The climate change has caused all the rains to dump unusual amount  of rain.   Denudation of forest, quarrying operations.    

Let us not cheer if there are floods in China.  We are in the same boat.

Rains from typhoon Carina destroys our bike rides

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Incessant torrential rains have wrecked havoc on our biking plans.  Stay house muna.  Carina which used to be a tropical depression blossomed into a typhoon.

Typhoon Signal No. 2 have been declared  over Northern Luzon.  My phone has been given Red Rainfall warning several times by NTC.  As of yesterday, several streets in MM were up to 30 cm of water.  Araneta Avenue was impossible.  In our town, several siren blasts were heaard.  

Spent  lot of time on TLC of the bike.   Wiping, cleaning the chains, lubing this.   patching up tires and tubes with leaks.   So that when rain stops, and the sun is up.....

It was raining so hard in #Majayjay, #Lukban, #Luisiana and #Cavinti

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Rizal Philippines   |  October 6 2014

     Angel was well prepared for this;  he had a raincoat on...

"Is there Baguio, friendly Nikki?"  There is none.   While there was yesterday, battering japan (and which caused the serious injuries of FI driver Bianchi  -  huh that is a famous Italian bicycle brand) there was none at PAR.

They say that it happens all the time at Majayjay and many towns around Mt Banahaw.  And so it was in Lukban, Luisiana and Cavinti.

It was dry and hot at Lumban, Kalayaan, Paete, Famy Mabitac but not at Bugarin.  It was wet and cold and chilly

No biking today; it rained the whole day today; there is a typhoon again

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Angono, Rizal  PHL  Aug 18, 2013

I was not available to bike today because it rained the whole night and the whole day today.  There is even a typhoon (Maring).  I just blogged the whole day today.  It is good that I did three bike rides during the week:  one on Monday, one on Thursday, and one on Friday.

I struggled with the stationary today and did about 5 x l5 push ups.

There is typhoon Gorio and signal no 2 is up in Rizal; can we bike tomorrow?

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Rizal   PHL    |  June 29, 2013

I just watched the TV and learned that typhoon signal No 2 is up over MM and there would be  rain tomorrow due to Typhoon Gorio.  Will rains continue tomorrow?

Shall we just do with the stationary trainer?