The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Lando caused damage to infrastructure and agriculture worth P11,000,003,194.04, making it the most destructive typhoon to hit the Philippines so far this year.
Lando, the 12th storm to hit the Philippines this year, struck northern Luzon on Oct. 18 and took a week to cross the island, bringing intense rain and peak winds of 185 kilometers per hour and leaving 47 people dead, 82 others injured and four missing.
Damage to infrastructure has reached P1,307,219,076, while damage to agriculture has gone up to P9,692,784,118.04 as of Nov. 1, according to the NDRRMC.
Houses, schools destroyed
The agency said Lando also damaged 70 health facilities in the Ilocos region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Calabarzon and Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR).
Lando destroyed or damaged 137,637 houses. Of those houses, 18,788 were destroyed.
Lando also destroyed or damaged 1,434 school classrooms in those regions, the NDRRMC said. Of those classrooms, 385 were destroyed and 1,049 were partially damaged.
Central Luzon had the most number of destroyed classrooms, 154, and the most number of partially damaged classrooms, 406.
Flooding caused by Lando’s intense rain affected 733,152 families, or 3,126,127 people, all over Luzon, the NDRRMC said.
As of Nov. 1, 2,399 families, or 9,122 people, were still staying in 37 evacuation centers, while 163,627 families, or 704,441 people, were staying with relatives, the agency said.
P122-M aid
So far, the government and private organizations have given P122,849,702.80 worth of assistance to affected families in the Ilocos region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, CAR and Metro Manila.
The flooding in 796 barangays in these regions has subsided as of Nov. 1, the NDRRMC said.
It said power had been restored in the ravaged communities, except in the towns of Sigay and Sugpon in Ilocos Sur province.
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