rain rain

that's the house on the corner of palosapis, and its reflection in the floodwaters...

its been raining like i've never remembered it these past few weeks. and the weatherpeople were on the cusp of declaring a drought. but that was before a couple of supertyphoons skirted the "philippine area of responsibility" typhoon tracking zone.

based on the tracks of the storms i've seen (two, so far), the storms coalesced, then began their westward journeys, and then bounced somehow, ending up in a more northward track heading to taiwan and/or japan's southernmost tip.

this, in some senses, is a good thing, seeing as the southern part of luzon has yet to recover from one of the storms of late last year - and these howlers are even more powerful than last typhoon seasons.

skirting or no, they seemed to have enough power to "intensify" a periodic weather phenomenon called the southwest monsoon which is active this time of year.

end result, rain. lots of it.

on a positive note, the dams that provide hydroelectric power to the luzon grid are now mostly over their critical levels, one dam in fact posting a water level rise of 14 meters over these past two weeks of monsoon rain.

...heck of a lot of rain, that.

amazing weather, truly. global warming? hard to ignore the signs.

...such as a flooded street (the incessant downpours are also hard to miss).