It is really terrifying when it rains down heavily and continuously, and flood water starts to rise to the point where it already reaches the floor level of your house. Suddenly, you’ll find your vicinity submerged under water. For an unprepared mind, the impulse to panic first before doing anything is a natural reaction; after all, many possibilities, that will put you and your entire family in danger, may occur.
For the residents of Lambak, in Barangay Concepcion in Lumban, Laguna, facing occasional flood is like an annual routine for them. However, the recent calamities that struck their place, like typhoons Ondoy, Peping and Maring, and the habagat (southwest monsoon), left memories of despair, and properties destroyed. Even if the floods are a usual thing, the residents have employed ways to mitigate, if not to totally avoid, the destruction of belongings.