{"id":336,"date":"2015-11-22T11:50:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yangdidi\/?p=336"},"modified":"2015-12-24T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T22:14:43","slug":"gin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yangdidi\/2015\/11\/22\/gin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F239004018&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=700&#038;maxheight=1000\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We heard on the radio that there is a typhoon coming. The chief on our island, he announced that everybody going to prepare for the storm. &#8220;There&#8217;s a big storm coming, super typhoon is coming, so everybody prepare for that.&#8221; That&#8217;s the time I heard it, so I went to my house and start preparing for the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>We secured our house. We secured the windows, the doors and everything that can, I mean the roofs to make sure that it&#8217;s not going to fly away. It might hurt somebody or &#8230; So, all the kids in the same house, that&#8217;s stronger than the [other homes].<\/p>\n<p>Three days before that, they warn us, so we have to prepare before then. During the typhoon I went to my sisters house. Me, and my wife and my kids. We went to my sister&#8217;s house, and we were there that night that it came. Then all the sudden, boom, the roof&#8217;s falling, big\u00a0rain.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve been standing all night, &#8217;til the morning holding the kids, they&#8217;d been crying. Just standing there all night until the time. Then, the time that we went to walk around this time, walking around. The roof&#8217;s gone. It&#8217;s been raining\u00a0all night.<\/p>\n<p>Plus me and my sister and my wife with the kids, we&#8217;re going to just grab them but the night came, it&#8217;s night time and the lights, not going to make it.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to think about the lights, I just made up my mind, it&#8217;s better to stay here instead of going out at this time, and something happen to us. So I made up my made to stay, better in the house. So we stay, then we&#8217;re safe.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, it&#8217;s loud. The trees, tin roofs, flying all around. She&#8217;s\u00a0scared. We didn&#8217;t move. Just grabbed the baby, and &#8230; I don&#8217;t know what (laughs). She kept crying\u00a0all night. They&#8217;re scared, we&#8217;re scared.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know to get out. It was like one of the US fighters picked up a big bomb and buried it (laughs). We can&#8217;t walk, so we had to make, to clean around, move a bunch of trees and roofs so we can go house to house. Even the main road, you cannot go to the main road. You cannot walk around.<\/p>\n<p>After the typhoon, then the family gathered together so they would know what we&#8217;re going to do to clean up the island. Make paths\u00a0for people to walk around, see everybody is okay.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s right after that, two days, three days after, then all the men gathered together and our Chief to see what to do for\u00a0the, to cleanup the roads and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We had just a month of food left, without the relief\u00a0that we bring. I don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re going to eat. We could go fishing, so we just brought the fish and some of the rice that we have, we still go fishing. The reefs, they&#8217;re\u00a0damaged so, we went on it.<\/p>\n<p>[Right after] We don&#8217;t allow to go fishing. We have to do the community walk first, and with the Chiefs. We go, &#8220;Hey, we&#8217;re going to go fishing.&#8221; We&#8217;re not going to go fish for ourselves. We&#8217;re going to go fish for the community, so everybody&#8217;s going to have something.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it&#8217;s not like before. It&#8217;s like, damaged, damaged on the reef. It&#8217;s like, plain. I still can see now, before it&#8217;s good, now gone. Now it&#8217;s dark and black again.\u00a0After the typhoon, it&#8217;s like milky.<\/p>\n<p>I think now it&#8217;s &#8230; bring people together after the storm. Before, before this typhoon, like each one of us and our family, whatever they do. But after this typhoon, like bring everybody together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">We heard on the radio that there is a typhoon coming. 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