Whenever the rain falls down so hard, I can’t help but feel a little nervous. Since the 2009 Typhoon Ondoy, which struck our area and family so hard, we became eternally paranoid of a heavy downpour. My family were safe, albeit shaken from the experience but sometimes, I still look back at some of the things that were destroyed by the calamity. I know this might sound frivolous to some but I mostly hoped that I could have just given out some of these before the tragedy struck. Then they could have survived.
I had acquired this Hermès La Promenade de Longchamps scarf, which I only used once in 2009, in that photo below:
Details of my (already unfortunate) Hermès La Promenade de Longchamps scarf
Hermès La Promenade de Longchamps scarf
Hermès La Promenade de Longchamps scarfBut I literally cried when I saw it in the aftermath and it had all these color transfers everywhere. I still kept it, though, as a remembrance of that fateful day.
Color transfer – Hermès scarf
Color transfer – Hermès scarf
And I also had this Lady Dior Cannage Shoulder Bag I have bought because it was just beautiful and I occasionally lend it to my sister and some friends if they wanted to.
Lady Dior Cannage shoulderbag
It was submerged for almost a day in flood water, making the patent leather extremely bubbly and all I could salvage was just the zipper pull — yet another memento.
Lady Dior engraved zipper pull
There were lots of other things that I have lost too. On the top of my mind, I lost two Hermès scarves, a pair of Miu Miu loafers, a pair of Bottega Veneta leather shoes, etc. But in the end, I just thought that it could have been worse. At least I did not lose any family member. =) I was not home when the tragedy happened because I had a class in graduate school. However, my dear mother and sister had the sense to keep all of my bags in the uppermost compartment of our built-in cabinets. That’s the reason why 80% of my things survived.
I do hope that that event will NEVER ever happen again. But I am still nervous of a heavy downpour. >_<
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