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Archive for January, 2009

Is SMART cheating customers of their load?

It seems SMART is cheating at least one of their customers of their load. I am sending a young lady in Cagayan de Oro City through CHIKKA sometimes load to her cellphone number. It takes not even a minute and the amount, mostly in the P30 range, is booked on her cellphone number. After sending a [...]

Evacuation centers in Cagayan de Oro City for flood victims

The series of flashfloods that hit Cagayan de Oro and Misamis Oriental has reached humanitarian crisis proportions on Thursday. Figures at the Cagayan de Oro Disaster Coordinating Council showed the disaster has affected 16,104 families or 83,321 individuals jampacked in various evacuation centers in 47 barangays or more than half of the city’s 80 barangays. Another fatality [...]

Flood again and again

Residents in Northern Mindanao are likely to endure five more days of heavy rains. Pagasa said satellite imageries taken by Japan Meteorological Satellite reveal that rain clouds continue to hover and form over much of Northern Mindanao. The same places in the city has been hit by floods again and again it just depends how much time [...]

Houses at the shoreline of CDO battered by big waves

Houses and people near the shore in Cugman and Gusa has been hit by big waves. The coldfront over northern Mindanao and the Visayas is still producing thick rain clouds for the next few days. In the background are the cloudcovered mountains of Malasag. Houses are destroyed, some people have only their lives and the clothes on [...]

The day after the flood – Opol

Flashfloods and landslides killed a teenager and displaced over 42,000 people in Misamis Oriental and Misamis Occidental, the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) said Tuesday. In Misamis Oriental, the Molugan Bridge was not passable due to a crack on the concrete column while the Opol Bridge was partially damaged and was declared by the Department of [...]

Helmet and only 2 person on a motorcycle law enforcement

When disaster hits, like here in Opol, in Misamis Oriental on the Island of Mindanao, nobody cares anymore even when a few weeks before it was all over the media that the police will enforce the law that all passengers on a motorcycle have to wear a helmet and that only 2 passengers are allowed [...]

Another flood hits Cagayan de Oro City

Just one week later another heavy flooding has hit Cagayan de Oro City again. This time the area of the National Highway Claro M. Recto Avenue crossing Osmena Street with the Coca Cola Bottlers Plant and Limketkai has been badly hit. Other areas in Cagayan de Oro City has been hit by heavy rainfall. So much [...]

Heavy flooding along the Carmen area on saturday

There is a low pressure area over the Visayas and Northern Mindanao that brought heavy winds and heavy rainfalls to Cagayan de Oro City, Gingoog City and Iligan City. A cloudburst occured somewhere in Bukidnon and the released rainwaters found somehow the way to the Cagayan River and let rise the water level very quick on [...]