He strongly protested when the novelist Dan Brown described Metro Manila as the “gates of hell,” but there are really hellish places that even his own cleanup and flood-control teams can’t enter.
The Philippine Coast Guard has placed all its units in the Visayas and Mindanao under “full alert” as it also ordered them to brace for the heavy rains and possible flash floods that might result from the first weather disturbance to hit the country this year.
With forest denudation identified as among the reasons for the devastation wrought by Typhoon “Pablo” in Mindanao, cooperatives on the island embarked on a massive tree-planting campaign last week.
The weather bureau on Sunday warned of possible flash floods and landslides in Mindanao, with the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) expected to bring moderate to heavy rains to the region.
At least five persons were reported missing while 400 families or 2,000 individuals were displaced when a flashflood hit two barangay (villages) in Malungon town in Sarangani Province on Saturday.
Torrential rain in Mindanao brought flash floods in Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat Monday night, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council reported Tuesday.
Flood waters have subsided and traffic movements have improved as of 10 p.m., hours after sudden heavy rains dumped on Metro Manila Thursday, a Metropolitan Manila Development Authority official said.
Parts of the county will experience rain showers and cloudy skies due to a low pressure area and a northeast monsoon, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Friday.
Pope Benedict XVI on Christmas Day prayed for the victims of devastating floods in the Philippines and Thailand in his “Urbi et Orbi” (Latin for “To the City and to the World”) speech from the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino pledged aid Tuesday to communities hit by flash floods that walloped the south, as the official toll topped a thousand dead or missing.
Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes is bent on moving out families living in danger zones beside the Mahiga Creek before the year ends as the risk of flash floods rises during rainy days.
As the province continued to experience erratic but heavy monsoon rains, flash floods threatened to inundate the towns of Boac and Mogpog, not just from a leaky Marinduque Copper Mining Corp. (Marcopper) dam but also from a siltation dam “in imminent danger of collapsing” and an abandoned open pit filled with millions of cubic meters of water and mine wastes.
PAMPANGA Motorcycles impounded THE CENTRAL Luzon police have impounded 4,757 motorcycles and scooters since it launched a campaign to stop vehicle theft and other crimes in May, the region’s top police official said. Regional police director Chief Supt. Edgardo Ladao said 34 cars and sport utility vehicles were also impounded in different provinces in the [...]
