If your Filipino helper's family is from Cagayan de Oro or Iligan city, you might want to check if her family is safe from the massive flood that hit today. Apparently it's the worst flood that ravaged the cities with 400 missing & thousands displaced. Sad to hear this news just a week before Christmas.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/112849/180-dead-nearly-400-missing-in-storm
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/112849/180-dead-nearly-400-missing-in-storm