MANILA, Philippines — A number of houses near the Marikina River were submerged in flood as Typhoon Ulysses battered practically the entire Luzon mainland, including Metro Manila.
Videos taken in areas close to the Marikina River showed nearly the entire first level of some houses underwater.
In a radio interview Marikina City mayor Marcelino Teodoro said roughly 40,000 homes had been either fully or partially submerged in the city, even calling the situation “overwhelming” and the worst since a typhoon back in 2009.
Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal has been lifted in Metro Manila based on the weather bulletin of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) at 5 p.m. on Thursday.
The state weather bureau said as of 4 p.m., Ulysses was located 200 kilometers west of Iba in Zambales. It has maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour (km/h) near the center and gustiness of up to 150 km/h.
Pagasa said Ulysses is moving westward at 25 km/h as is seen to exit PAR on Friday morning. — With report from Reuters