Typhoon Survivor's Daughter: Ma just let go, Save your life
It's typical to hear parents sacrificing their lives to save their children but a daughter doing it to save her mom is very highly unusual.
The tragic death of the 6-year-old daughter of Bernadette Tenegra, a 44-year-old high school teacher and typhoon survivor in Tacloban city, was published in the website of Philippine Daily Inquirer. The heart touching story of her daughter's heroic act titled "Daughter's last words: Ma just let go, Save yourself..." earned thousands of shares in social media.
Letting go of someone is not easy but for the sake of saving the life of her mother, the 6-year-old daughter of Bernadette had to do it else both of them will end up dead. Right at the middle of the raging floodwaters, the sweet little angel said, "Ma just let go, Save yourself..."
In an interview with inquirer.net, Bernadette Tenegra initially narrated the unforgiving force of super typhoon Yolanda. She said, the sky was clear hours before the deadly landfall of the monster typhoon. Bernadette together with her 6-year-old daughter and the rest of her family were packed inside their home located on the bank of a river at Barangay 66-Paseo de Legazpi, Tacloban. They were confident that the powerful storm will immediately die out as it had always happen in the past.
Unfrotunately, the least thing they expected occurred. The water rose with astonishing speed, trees fell down, and their wooden house toppled over. They scrambled in deep floodwater. Bernadette saw her 6-year-old daughter struggling in the raging floodwater along with sharp deadly debris. The brave mother devised a plan to save her from drowning. She managed to get close to her 6-year-old daughter and told her to hang on.
“I crawled over to her, and I tried to pull her up. But she was too weak. It seemed she had already given up,” the older Tenegra said.
The grieving mother said she would never forget the last words of her daughter before she succumbed to death: "Ma, just let go. Save yourself."
The 6-year-old Tenegra was pierced by wooden fragments from houses crushed by super typhoon “Yolanda.” -PDI news
Condolences to the Tenegra family and rest in peace little angel.