One person was killed while trying to help neighbors as hundreds of terrified villagers fled to safer ground as flash flood swamped two towns in Davao del Norte early Thursday, officials said.
Army Pfc. Albert Fuyonan should have been celebrating his wedding at a church in Tagum City in Davao del Norte on Saturday instead of being confined in a hospital.
At least 43 people died and 25 others injured as Typhoon “Pablo” (international name: Bopha) slammed into the mining province of Compostela Valley Tuesday, the military said.
There was no typhoon in the area but there was “confined rainfall” and thick clouds over northern Cebu when a flash flood hit Liloan town’s Mulao river, where a boy drowned, the Mactan office of the state weather bureau Pagasa said.
Northern and Central Luzon will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms as the tail-end of a cold front continues to prevail over the region, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Friday.
Diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corp. on Wednesday unveiled the single largest corporate social responsibility project in the country for victims of Tropical Storm “Sendong.”
It would not have mattered to Rodel Gabato if they had rung the school bell all day Tuesday. He would not have shown up, anyway.
Like a rampaging tsunami, but with more destructive debris that tore up everything in its path. This was how a University of the Philippines geologist described the flash floods that hit Iligan City at the height of Tropical Storm “Sendong” which left more than 400 dead in the city alone. Alfredo Mahar Lagmay explained that [...]
The official death toll from last week’s massive flash flooding in two Mindanao cities topped 1,000 on Wednesday as authorities said they lost count of how many more were missing in one of the worst calamities to hit the southern coastal region.
Extreme cases of flooding like what Tropical Storm “Sendong” unleashed in the cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro follow a 100-year cycle, a government scientist-expert says on Tuesday.
I wasn’t worried when an SUV went around the neighborhood frantically honking its horn, or when I saw barefoot people huddled in the corner store under pouring rain.
The absence of a flood warning, high tide, darkness and a false sense of security proved disastrous for people of northern Mindanao when Tropical Storm “Sendong” came over the weekend.
Heavy rain on Thursday swamped areas of the US northeast already sodden from Hurricane Irene, with up to five people killed as flash floods forced over 100,000 to leave their homes.
