"Jolina" holds us in Caticlan

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For two days (Aug. 1 & 2), we were stranded at Caticlan because of the tropical storm "Jolina". It was Saturday when we decided to go home and waived for our previous plan of going to Bacolod. However, Orley's mind changed because one of his kids is sick. Our other comnpanions informed us that there was no trip to Tablas so they proceeded to Boracay. We packed our things instead and bade goodbye to our hosts, Ate Me-ann's cousins, and drove towards Caticlan to join our co-teachers for the Sunday trip.

The trip from Iloilo to Caticlan lasted for about five hours. When we arrived, news spread that a motorboat capsized with 25 passengers and 6 crews on board at around 11:30am. That was the last time we had a contact with our four co-teachers who informed us that they were already on the boat heading to Caticlan. I watched Ate Me-an and I felt a sudden chill all over my body. No! No! This could not be!

But after a while, we reached them. They were ok. It was not their boat.
Typhoon "Jolina" was pounding hard creating gigantic waves leading to the closing of the Caticlan Jetty Port. Instead, motorized bancas were made to dock on the other side of the coast. To kill time, we played cards and laughed a lot. We stayed at Tita Merly Tolosa's residence while the other four stayed at the Casimero Cottage near the airport.

On Monday, August 3, there was no trip to Tablas again beacuse of the rough seas. But our spirits were willing to go. We took the Hambil trip and hired the same pumpboat towards Tablas: any point in Tablas. We docked in Tabugon (see above picture). Thinking that our ordeal was over, we were wrong because the road from Tabugon to Magsaysay was unpassable for four-wheeled vehicles. The service van that was supposed to pick us up couldn't pass. So, it was again a roller-coaster ride over a 'single', dismounting everytime we passed a bog-like road.

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