Oh No, Not Again! FREAKIN' Southwest Monsoon!

08 August 2012 - Flood from this Fuc%#@$, Freakin' Southwest Monsoon

27 September 2009 -  Flood from Typhoon Ketsana / Ondoy

I thought I was spared.  It really is a humdinger of a southwest monsoon.  Just like probably the thousands of families in evacuation sites right now, I owe this freakin' monsoon a blasphemous rant.  It's sad however, that I can't do it here.  :-(  Just about when the weather is improving (a little bit, as it is still raining as of this writing), there's a knee-deep flood along the stretch of the avenue where my place is located.  I can't go anywhere!

I'm like a broken record - this is just a bad deja vu.  It's like Ketsana all over gain.  I've got the pictures above and videos below to prove it.  Take a close look.  They look very similar, right?

Ondoy (Ketsana) Deja Vu. Southwest Monsoon Woes

V. Mapa LRT Station in Manila

Aurora Boulevard in Manila

view from my bedroom window in Pasig City

continuous rain for the past 3 days;  morning looks like the sun is about to go down.  

view on a clear day

I now have a fair understanding of how 40 days and 40 nights of continuous rain could destroy the entire world!  As of this writing (2:30 in the afternoon of 7 August 2012), there is no storm, typhoon, cyclone, low pressure area, nor dangerous weather system afflicting the Philippines, just your usual wet monsoon (i.e., "hanging habagat" in the vernacular).   But Oh My God!  This monsoon is by no means your ordinary wet monsoon.  It's a FREAK southwest monsoon.  It's been continuously raining for the past 3 days and flash floods have already wreaking havoc in central and southern regions of Luzon including the National Capital region, Metro Manila.  It's freakishly scary!