As Ondoy poured out his wrath Saturday, Filipinos from all walks of life renewed the bayanihan spirit---that indomitable Filipino quality that helps them collectively conquer adversity.

Those who are technologically-savvy are putting up a google map of affected areas to help facilitate relief and rescue operations.

In many areas, people living in higher areas opened their doors to flooded neighbors, giving up their space and privacy in the meantime in the midst of a disaster. Some offered their roofs as temporary shelter as flood engulfed entire houses.

People who were fortunate enough to be in safer areas sent a deluge of texts and reports to media networks and disaster agencies of stranded people requiring immediate rescue operations.

People offered food to each other, sharing whatever little they had, observed Marikina Rep. Marcelino Teodoro. The lawmaker accommodated 150 people in the second level of his house as floodwaters devoured his neighbors’ homes.

Hospitals, too, allowed non-patients to seek temporary shelter inside the hospital premises. At the United Doctors Medical Center in Quezon City, dozens of families stayed overnight while the rampaging floodwaters rose.

As the damage slowly unfolded, big business corporations set the wheel of donation in motion, expressing support—financial and in kind to the affected. Even your lowly sari-sari stores owners have joined the bayanihan spirit ---proof that generosity of humanity knows no bounds.

Lydia Durrea, staff of the Sagrada Family Parish in Sitio Veterans, Barangay Silangan, Quezon City, said they have received donations from sari-sari store owners, giving up tidy profit for the sake of the less fortunate.

“We got canned sardines, noodles, rice from the nearby sari-sari stores. The ration may not be enough but it helped in a great way to the starving evacuees,” she said.

She added that hundreds of families have evacuated to the parish church and the others in evacuation centers.

An ABS-CBN telethon has raised at least P20 million in cash pledges and P25 million worth of goods from companies and individuals.

Some 250 volunteers heeded the call of ABS Sagip-Kapamilya for additional helping hand.

Businesswoman Jennifer Reyes, 31, said she and her group of friends have called up Sagip-Kapamilya to volunteer but they were told that the slots were already filled up.

She is scouring other relief groups which need more volunteers. “We’d like to help, even in small gestures, to the less fortunate,” Reyes said. – abs-cbnNEWS.com/ Newsbreak