Our Typhoon Experience: When typhoon Kalmaegi (Tino) hits northern Cebu.

Last week, Monday of November 03, 2025, the news about the typhoon coming here in Visayas was reported to be strong and could raise signal no. 4 here in northern Cebu. Since we are aware lthat the typhoon is coming, we decided to get ready and prepare for the upcoming typhoon in the very next day. We decided to charge our phones, flashlights, and power banks, since we already predicted that the electricity could be lost when the typhoon hits. As you can see here in the picture the skies were ready to release some heavy rains and we are so terrified that the place that we evacuated could be destroyed by the strong winds.

By the way this is the place that we evacuated, the house was covered with trapal or a waterproof sheet thing that is used to cover stuffs.

And then it was November 4 and the typhoon is closing in, I’ve already packed up the things that I need.

And also earlier that day I also bought my cats a 1 kilo of catfood that could last a week.

Later that evening the wind was so strong and I decided to check the weather in this site called zoom earth. The typhoon did not landfall yet but the winds were so bad that the house was shaking.

And the clock turns to 4:28 the wind was getting stronger and stronger that I couldn’t sleep. My cat couldn’t sleep also and got scared when the wind blew.

It was now 5:50 and the expected landfall was 5-6 Am. I was so terrified because I still had the trauma that Super Typhoon Yolanda also known as Super Typhoon Haiyan gave me when it hits here in northern Cebu.

It was so cold that time and luckily my father boiled a water so that we don’t get cold and also to keep us warm.

It was now 6 AM and the wind destroyed the thing that used to cover us and thanks to my father and my uncle they managed to fix it right on time.

After an hour of suffering the typhoon it was finally over but the typhoon leaves us a lot of leaves inside the house and outside the house. It also destroyed our things. Some of the big branches of the trees were broke down. The electricity went out and the signal also went out. We couldn’t call our love ones that time because of the limited signal. But thanks to God that we are safe and our house wasn’t destroyed or damaged by the typhoon.