Why the puzzles? Othewise, let us join the rescue, relief, rebuild of flooded communities

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We cant bike,  Streets are flooded.  Rains do not stop.   Rains can seep into hubs, headset, and cranks, BB and wreck our bikes.

So as not to waste time, we continue static exercises for the body,  And these puzzles for the Brain.

Otherwise, we join activities for rescue, relief, and rebuilding of flooded communities.  

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.....

Heavy rains met this biker this morning coming back from Pililla

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Rizal Philippines
June 8, 2018

It was raining at dawn and fortunately  rains stopped at around 6:30 and so I biked to Pililla.(Up to km 58)
It was cloudy and was a good day to bike.  The roads though had  puddles of water all ready and soiling my jersey, helmet, hair and bike

From Pililla, there  was no rain yet.  It started to have light drizzle in Baras and stopped when I was in Maybancal.  At the highway between Morong and Cardona, the rains really poured.

As I was climbing LLDA, the water cascaded down like a river....I nearly crashed onto steel bars/beams carried by a tricycle that had stopped and its cargo was blocking the highway.  He was not very visible because the flags/warning he  had was small was not brightly colored... And visibility because  of the  heavy rain was poor.

Will I get sick because I got drenched by heavy rains while biking.  Let us see.

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

Not a good day to bike today? It was raining all over the bike route

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Angono, Rizal PHL   |  September 15, 2013

It rained out last night and up dawn this morning.  It was past 7 am when I woke up and I saw the rooftops of my neighbor still wet.  The roads were still wet when I set out in the direction of Pililla.  It was nearly 730 when I left and passed by Sacred Heart Parish.  I left the church by 7:45 and was in Morong by 830  and had my lugaw breakfast there and left for Pililla by 9:00.  I was in Pililla by 10 am however the skies looked ominously dark.  It rained for a while and had to sit it out in Pillilla.  I was in Binangonan by 11:00.  However, in Calumpang highway, the rain poured non stop.  I braved out to bike home around 1145.  I was all wet - sopping wet (from the rains of course)

I was in Angono by 12:20.  The rain stopped since then.  However as I am making this post, the rain is pouring again.

The daugther of Aling Simple at Maybancal said that only a handful biked today.  Because of the rains, they do not want their bikes to get wet.  Hahaha.