The “habagat” (southwest monsoon) is not done yet with Metro Manila and other parts of Luzon as it continues to bring rains, enhanced by Typhoon “Karen,” which has left the country’s area of responsibility and moved on to the southern part of Japan.
President Benigno Aquino will give out awards in Camp Aguinaldo on Wednesday for those who joined the search for the late Secretary Jesse Robredo and those who helped in the rescue efforts at the height of the habagat (southwest monsoon), according to a defense official.
Tropical Storm “Helen” crossed Isabela province at dawn on Wednesday, dumping heavy rains and whipping strong winds that toppled trees, especially in the coastal villages facing the Pacific Ocean. At least six fatalities were reported.
Don’t let the sun’s appearance make you lower your guard. An active low pressure area (LPA) spotted off Central Luzon may intensify into a storm and enter the country’s territory by Monday, while the southwest monsoon will continue to bring rains over several provinces, the state weather bureau said Saturday.
How do we call the “storm” with no name? Habagat 2012? Even President Benigno Aquino III’s deputy spokesperson, Abigail Valte, was stumped on how to call the powerful monsoon rains that triggered massive flooding and cut a wide swath of destruction in the capital and parts of central and southern Luzon.
Though weakened, the southwest monsoon, locally known as hanging habagat, will continue to bring rainshowers and thunderstorms over Northern Luzon and Central Luzon, posing the threat of flash floods and landslides as people in the two regions, and those in the capital, struggle to restore normality to their lives after this week’s floods.
President Benigno Aquino’s visit with the huddled masses in temporary shelters around Metro Manila on Thursday took him to Gen. T. de Leon High School in Valenzuela City where, all of a sudden, the sun that had been hiding since Monday shone and the sky that had since been gray turned blue.
President Benigno Aquino on Thursday warned a drug company that had raised its price of a medicine for leptospirosis by 750 percent in anticipation of an outbreak of the waterborne illness as a result of widespread flooding in Metro Manila and surrounding provinces.
The unrelenting monsoon rains that inundated Metro Manila and neighboring provinces since Monday also affected the police investigation into the death of hazing victim Marc Andre Marcos, a police official said Thursday.
Facebook user Rolando Luzong posted this line on his account to describe a photo of a waving President Benigno Aquino aboard an Army truck alongside his potential senatorial candidates in a relief operation to help flood victims in Muntinlupa City.
The country’s major airlines extended for a third day their free rebooking promo for passengers who missed their flights at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) due to the flooding in Metro Manila and nearby provinces.
TO HELP its members in areas devastated by floods and those in areas placed in a state of calamity, the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has made available a P10-billion emergency loan fund.
Equipped with only seven rubber boats and three trucks, Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) teams have rescued some 3,000 flood victims, said Lt. Armand Balilo.
