After Disaster

Now, it’s about 3 o’clock in the morning. My mom, my older sister and her husband have gone down stairs to the shops on the first floor to check on all things. And I just crawled out of the covers.

Just a moment ago, mom took a call from my younger sister in another district, who told that the storm had caused flood flowing into her house and grocery store and asked mom if it was ok here. Mom ran to open the window, much to her surprise, she shouted, “Oh,my God, the street has become as a river.”

I know it’s raining cats and dogs outside, but when I was in the bed and heard mom’s shouts, I took no notice of it. She, I thought, was just kidding around.

I’m left in charge of home, or rather, I just want to sit in front of my desk and write something for rain always makes me think more and deeper.

“Soboma, So…bo……ma! Are you up? Come down here, come on.” Sorry, my mom is calling me now. I’ve got to get down, perhaps I can give a hand or something.

To be continued…

It’s 5:43 a.m now. Man, I’m back, with weariness and foulness of the flood. The storm may be one of the worst disasters in our city’s history. It’s unbelievable that the accumulated water in our shops has reached more than one meter in depth. Lots of medicine boxes, paper and something are flowing on the water. Quickly, we transferred the medicine and equipment in danger of being washed away to a safe and high place. The same with our neighbors, who were busy draining water out of their apartments during the time from two to five in the morning. Our street has become as a long river, and the yard has become a deep and dirty pond.

We have roughly estimated our loss caused by the flood at 500 dollars. But that’s not what I want to say. I mean my family and I unite together, help each other so that we ride out many difficulties confronting us. We have a population of 1.3 billion, if we unite together when one of us gets into trouble; then one’s difficulty divided by 1.3 billion no longer equals difficulty. Failure will never overtake us if we are closely united enough. I believe, anytime, anywhere, we could be better, and we will win.