By REYNALD MAGALLON
Even former PBA player and current MPBL big man JR Quinahan was not spared by the wrath of the Typhoon Tino after almost everything – from their appliances and clothes to their motorcycles – were swept away by the floods that ravaged the Visayas regions.
In a video posted by his wife, a distraught Quinahan was seen attending to his vehicle as soon as the flood subsided, leaving his house and all of his belongings covered in mud in Mandaue City, Cebu.
“Wala na tayong gamit. Zero na, back to zero na. Magmula sa appliances hanggang sa mga damit wala na,” said Quinahan in Cebuano.
“Thankful that we were all able to get out just in time — complete, including our fur babies Paka and Choco. JR also managed to move all the vehicles in the nick of time, except our motorcycles — both already caught by the current. Still grateful despite it all,” wrote Quinahan’s wife.
She added that Quinahan and his family had just recently moved into the new house just last May in the village that, according to their neighbors, has not really experienced floods in the past years.
“WE WILL REBUILD. Yes, I am broken-hearted! Everything we worked so hard for — our home, our life — was in that house. I’m still shaking as I write this, still in shock from the trauma. Everything happened so fast, very unreal and like that of a movie. But we will move forward from this,” she added.
Quinahan’s family was only one of the thousands of residents affected by the floods which was due to the heavy rain brought by typhoon Tino.
Cebu, Negros and nearby provinces in were heavily affected by the typhoon which passed through the Visayas and made a total of eight landfalls before making it way to the Philippine Sea on Wednesday, Nov. 5.
