Floods force thousands to flee in Indonesia

Monsoon rains and rising rivers have forced thousands of people to flee their flooded homes in Indonesia’s capital.

Monsoon rains and rising rivers have forced thousands of people to flee their flooded homes in Indonesia’s capital.
The senate is open to passing a supplemental budget to finance projects aimed at addressing massive flooding brought by stronger-than-usual monsoon rains.

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.