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From Sr. Carmela Montelibano
Sibalom Circular letter
June 24, 2008
- Antique
- Antique
I cannot hellp but recall Sr. Diana’s circular of March 4,2008 :" Deep calls unto deep i n the roar of mighty waters." (Ps.42, vs. 7) This s what we literally experenced last June 21st . Mass was at 6:00 a.m. n our parish Church . The ground was wet because it rained the whole night and signal no. 3 was posted not only in Antique but in the whole of Panay nclung Romblon and Mindoro.
We calmly took our breakfast after Mass. Then One of our teachers, Mrs. Mae P.Alvior and her 4 children arrived asking for lodging as her whole house was already filling up with muddy water.We were still talking when Sr. Letty exclaimed :
"It is already entering our house !" We felt the water ar our feet ! In matters of seconds the water rose up to our waist filling our chapel, living room, community room. refectory, kitchen- all the ground floor of our house ! We hurriedly rescued our breviaries and brought them to the 2nd floor. Then we remembered the computer. Television and CD Players, the big frame of St. Marie Eugenie, the telephone and had them brought upstairs. The chairs in the chapel were floating !
- Antique
- Antique
Looking out from the open porch upstairs we saw the streets filled with water up to the neck. People were swimming and/ or riding car tires ! We never experienced anything like this. People came flocking top our school ! The water rose up to the neck in the nearby Hospital. The patients were all evacuated and housed in the classrooms, library. lobby. A mother has just given birth to a baby boy. Dextrose and all she was taken to our school. Of course her baby was named Frank after the name of the storm. The flood came from the surrounding denuded mountains. The patients with dextrose and on oxygen were ; later taken by an ambulance and brought to the hospital in San Jose. 31 families stayed on for five more days eighteen of them completely lost their homes. We visited the areas that were badly hit and saw the misery of the poor. Whole families without food clothing or shelter many were missing and drown in the flood. What was amazing was that faith of the people. "Thanks be to God we are alive" they exclaimed !
Our parish was well organized Father Edione Febrero, received all the donation in cash and kind and together with the volunteers and parish workers they cooked and fed everybody. The parish hall is being walled and received the refugees from our school.
- Antique
- Antique
Fr. Edione prefers to receive cash so that the people’s needs can be answered and acted upon soonest. Medicine , water, rice , clothing are immediate needs as well as house for the homeless. So far Iloilo Assumption has responded with Claire Cecilia coming her self with rice, water clothes and goods. Sr. Marjo came bringing aid in cash and kind. We shared the cash with Bishop Romy Lazo. Calibo was badly affected.
It’s only now that electricity has returned and we begin to assess our own problems. The Walls downstairs are beginning to be infested by termites. But this is minimal in comparison with the sufferings of our people.
Thank you for your prayers and concern. We are enclosing some pictures taken after the heavy flood in front of the market in Sibalom. Our pictures will follow later.
I am Sr. Carmela Montelibano ra writing for our community.
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