we are still busy with the clean up.

Joy went with the Rice delivery to Manila to see if one of the properties we own there and rent out was damaged. This is the house where Kuya lived when he went to college, and the front part has been renovated to make it a commercial office.

presumably the streets are now open.

We still have a lot of a mess in our private gardens: Other priorities. The water supply to the house, the rice crop may be salvagable and the rice storage bodega is getting a new roof. ManBUlletin has a report here. it's not just the rice destroyed, but the buildings and equipment on the farms. A couple years ago, we lost all the buildings of our Chicken farm during a typhoon. Luckily we had just "harvested"the chickens so we didn't have to bury 1000 dead chickens, but we never did rebuild: instead we converted the area for drying and storing rice,

I am exhausted: I suspect it is from the prolonged exposure to the heat when we had limited electricity. There has been some rain since then also, and the next worry is a rise of dengue fever due to all the puddles etc where mosquitoes breed.

It's been raining on and off, with overcast skies for the last two days, but no major problem...There is another low pressure area out there, but will probably miss us.