Almost all of Manado has been flooded today. However, thankfully my house in Dendengan Dalam was not flooded, only the main road was flooded. On some roads the flood was only knee deep but on other roads it was chest deep.
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| This photo was taken on Friday, 27 January, 2023 at 18:05 with Samsung Galaxy A10s in my grandma's backyard. I forgot the name of this plant. |
It has been raining all day in Manado from 4:30am to 5pm. My mother didn't go to work today and of course my sister didn't go to her school because my mother was unable to go out. I have been at my grandmother's house in Dendengan Dalam since 2 days ago (25/01/2023).
In quite a lot of places the electricity has been turned off, in Dendengan Dalam itself the electricity has been turned off since 5 or 6am and was turned on at 2pm. For me it doesn't matter if it rains all day but the problem is if there is no electricity.
At 12pm my mother and I went to my boarding house in Ranomuut (just about 550 metres) to take the candles which I thought were still there. When I went into my room to get all the candles, all the candles had been eaten by mice. I was really annoyed but it's okay.
My mother and I went to Indomaret to buy candles, 5 fried noodles, 2 cold coffees for us to drink and 1 big snack for us to eat at home. From Indomaret we went home to put the things we bought earlier and go again to buy some medicines like antibiotics.
Because my mother's money was under IDR 10,000, my mother and I went again to the nearest ATM to take money. We went to the Office of Manado Mayor to get money at the ATM in the office but unfortunately the ATM is not working because the electricity in the office is out.
From the Office of Manado Mayor we went again to the city center to the central bank to take money at the bank's ATM. Thankfully the bank has electricity and my mother can take enough money from the ATM and then buy some medicines at the nearest pharmacy, after that we went home.
When I got home the electricity was already on, my sister said the electricity had been on since 2pm and I immediately took a shower because I had walked in chest-deep floods. It's been a long time since I walked in a flood, the last time was on 14 January, 2014.
Ah, my house was not flooded earlier and the electricity is also on so I can take a shower, yokatta! I have to keep myself clean, my hair, my face, my genitals, all of my body.
~ Sofia the Dancing Star (27/01/2023)
The photo in this article was first published on my Instagram on Friday, 27 January, 2023.
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