Reaction Paper About Typhoon

713 Words3 Pages

Reading nonfictional books can make a person feel different emotions. It can make you feel anger, sadness, sympathy and sometimes happiness. But watching a documentary film about a typhoon and its aftermath will obviously make you cry, most especially if you are one those unfortunate people who were hit and affected by the said typhoon. "Shifts" is a documentary film about Sendong and its aftermath, the typhoon that brought floods and mudslides that resulted in over 650 deaths and 800 still missing across the Southern Philippines. It was said in a news article that typhoon Sendong or Washi as it was internationally called, was the world 's deadliest storm for 2011. The hardest hit areas include major ports of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, on the north coast of the island of Mindanao. I can still remember the night before the flood, i came home tired …show more content…

The man climbed up the store 's roof and started to pull each one of us up the roof. When my feet made contact with the roof i felt relief flood my system. At least that time i felt like we were finally safe. The man went inside our house and helped my cousin who was trying to break down the door of his brothers ' room where they were still trapped. Fortunately they managed to make a hole in the door and my three cousins were finally saved. All of us climbed up in the roof of my aunt 's room upstairs along with our neighbors who evacuated in our house.We stayed there for what felt like eternity, waiting for the sun to rise and the water to go down while praying. Watching the documentary film brought back many vivid memories about what happened the morning after that unfortunate event. It was like a scene in the movie Tears of the Sun came to life. There were many fallen trees, we can hear wails and heartbroken cries. I saw a man carry a lifeless body of a boy while others were looking for their missing family members. We were all starving and exhausted. I can 't help but still think that it was just

More about Reaction Paper About Typhoon

Open Document