Flood victim seeks pols’ attention via Facebook
By Maricar Cinco
A resident in flood-hit Barangay Dela Paz in Biñan City wants to remind politicians of the dire condition of his village since the August monsoon rains.
A resident in flood-hit Barangay Dela Paz in Biñan City wants to remind politicians of the dire condition of his village since the August monsoon rains.
Light to moderate rains will continue in Metro Manila even as the yellow signal advisory was lifted by the state weather bureau Wednesday afternoon.
Addressing the flood problem in Metro Manila could be as simple as digging holes in the earth.
Southwest monsoon rains enhanced by Typhoon “Karen” flooded nine villages in Bulacan and Pampanga, the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) said in a report on Monday.
The combined death toll from Typhoon “Helen” and the southwest monsoon has risen to 118 while damage to infrastructure and agricultural crops has reached more than P3 billion, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Friday.
The state weather bureau lowered all public storm signals nationwide as Tropical Storm Helen exited the country on Thursday. But it cautioned the public to be wary of rains and winds brought by the storm-enhanced southwest monsoon.
The senate is open to passing a supplemental budget to finance projects aimed at addressing massive flooding brought by stronger-than-usual monsoon rains.
Several majors dams in Luzon have kept their gates open in anticipation of more rains to be dumped by a tropical storm that was again enhancing the southwest monsoon.
Aiming to reduce the vulnerability of Metro Manila and outlying provinces to flooding during heavy rains, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has introduced a master plan for effective and comprehensive flood management in the region up to 2035.
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.
When evacuees who sheltered at a school in a badly flooded suburb of Manila were told on Friday to return to their homes, Luzviminda Limas worried where her family would sleep.
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.
Nearly 9,000 farmers whose crops were destroyed by last week’s torrential monsoon rains stand to get P100 million in insurance payments from the Department of Agriculture through the Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC).
