Downpour ties up traffic; rains continue

A downpour at 2 p.m. yesterday triggered knee-deep flood water in low-lying parts of downtown Cebu City and stalled traffic when two trees fell on a passing SUV.

The driver escaped unhurt but the crash blocked a portion of a main  road  from Talamban to Cebu City.

Street floods were also noted in Salinas Drive in Lahug and slowed traffic in barangay Subangdaku along Hernan Cortes Street of Mandaue City and in Panagdait in Mabolo after the Subangdaku Creek overflowed.

Several vehicles including jeepneys were  stranded along M. J. Cuenco Avenue. Ankle deep water covered parts of the Mandaue national highway  near the Subangdaku creek forcing passengers to walk.

A shallow low pressure area spotted 180 kilometers east of Mindanao dissipated yesterday noon.

Another low pressure area was spotted east of Bicol, but it was still outside the Philippine area of responsibility, forecasters said.

So far, three cyclones have entered the Philippines this year, the last being Tropical Storm Carina, which stayed briefly.

The weather bureau Pagasa said the country will  generally have fair weather today but people are warned to expect possible scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.

Parts of the Visayas will be partly cloudy with isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms./With a report from Doris C. Bongcac