Elderly Marikina couple loses all they have to floods–again

Elderly Marikina couple loses all they have to floods–again

Many residents of Marikina City are still struggling to recover from the damage that Typhoon ‘Carina’ and the floods brought about by its torrential rains left behind.

Quietly sitting by the door of one of the classrooms of the Malanday Elementary School, 68-year-old Jose Wilmar Enecillo was lost in thought on how he and his family would rise after getting knocked down yet again by the wrath of Mother Nature.

“Parang na-Ondoy kami ulit,” Enecillo told The Manila Times, referring to the second-most devastating tropical cyclone that ravaged Luzon nearly 15 years ago.

Enecillo said that once he learned that the Marikina River had breached the 20-meter mark, he knew that there was little chance their home, a stone’s throw away from the riverbank, would be spared.

True enough, when Tatay Jose, his two adult children and wife Milagros trooped back to their house mostly made of wood, it was covered in all sorts of debris and mud and they had no choice but to pile all their belongings along with the discarded trash their neighbors were hauling in the alley.

Video by Tina Maralit & Ismael De Juan

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