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 is there between the downpoors. City Hall workers are trying to unclog the low bridges but they get clogged again and again with debris like coconuts, bananatrunks, palmleaves and others.
A family found temporary shelter under the Carmen bridge just beside City Hall.
The important road in Carmen leading to Lumbia Airport and SM City, just below the Pryce Hotel, is in danger of getting hit by a landslide.
A view of the overflowed Cagayan river. Some parts have been under water for almost 200 centimeters.
Here we had the chance to watch a rescue operation of an elderly and sick men. He had to be rescued from the Isla de Oro which has been submerged under floodwaters again. People call it their home and don’t want to leave and will rebuild their destroyed and damaged houses again and again. They don’t see any alternative as to stay on this dangerous islands in the Cagayan river.
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On another location we watched a dangerous rivercrossing but everybody reached the other side safely.
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According to the Lumbia Pagasa Station, Wednesday’s heavy rainfall was measured at 104.4 millimeters in 24 hours rainfall.
In Pagasa’s climatological normal rainfall table, January has registered 82.8 millimeters of ten rainy days.
Pagasa said the normal amount of rainfall for this month has already been surpassed in just one day.
Photos by Gilberto Beltran
