A staunch supporter of outgoing Mayor Vicente “Dongkoy” Emano, Inday Acdal always made sure his campaign posters were plastered outside her house during election season. That, however, changed after she lost some of her neighbors and her entire home during the Tropical Storm “Sendong” tragedy on Dec. 17, 2011.
A staunch supporter of outgoing Mayor Vicente “Dongkoy” Emano, Inday Acdal always made sure his campaign posters were plastered outside her house during election season. That, however, changed after she lost some of her neighbors and her entire home during the Tropical Storm “Sendong” tragedy on Dec. 17, 2011. “It took a Sendong for me [...]
Palm oil plantations in Mindanao have been added to a growing list of factors to blame for some of the worst cases of flooding that struck the island and for disasters of magnitudes unknown to the island in the past, like the storms “Sendong” and “Pablo.”
One year on, remembrance still brought tears to the eyes of journalists who chronicled the tragedy spawned by tropical storm ‘Sendong’ on Dec. 16 and 17 in 2011.
Mary Rose Dumaguit, 12, lost her mother and 8-month-old sister when floodwaters destroyed their house in Sitio (sub-village) Cala-Cala in Barangay (village) Macasandig when Tropical Storm “Sendong” struck a year ago today. Like many children, who lost not only family members but also their homes, her life has never been the same since then.
The weather disturbance approaching the Philippines could become a supertyphoon, much stronger than last year’s Tropical Storm Sendong which ravaged the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, and is eerily moving in the same direction, Pagasa Administrator Nathaniel Servando said Saturday.
Nonprofit housing organization Habitat for Humanity on Wednesday said it has addressed issues on the quality of houses it built for victims of Tropical Storm Sendong in Cagayan de Oro City.
The National Housing Authority (NHA) will investigate reports that housing units in Cagayan de Oro City built for victims of Tropical Storm Sendong were substandard in quality, Vice President Jejomar Binay said Friday.
“We have survived Sendong but can we survive a quake?” Yehlen Ocampo said as she surveyed the house her family was given recently under a government relocation program for victims of the flash floods unleashed by Tropical Storm Sendong on Cagayan de Oro City in December 2011.
Some 900 families displaced by armed conflict and typhoon “Sendong” in five provinces and two cities of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will see the first foundation of their new houses after Ramadan.
Survivors of Tropical Storm Sendong in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities will have new homes within the year, Vice President Jejomar Binay announced Saturday.
Classrooms, school grounds and covered courts that teemed with hundreds of people displaced by Tropical Storm “Sendong” last December are now empty. The chairs have been repainted, floors waxed and polished, and blackboards scrubbed spotless—all set, it seems, for the reopening of classes on Monday.
Nine-year-old Karl Winston Cabañez’s parents could not afford even the simplest of luxuries. Then, the family had to deal with their losses after floodwaters brought about by Tropical Storm “Sendong” destroyed everything they had in December last year.
