Storm that caused massive flooding across Phl to bring rains to HK starting Sunday

 

Map traces storm's track. (Pagasa photo)

Tropical Storm Paeng (international  name: Nalgae) ravaged the Philippines tonight, its rains causing floods and landslides that left 45 people dead and billions worth of damage to crops and other properties, and it will be felt in Hong Kong starting tomorrow.

According to the Hong Kong Observatory, it expects to raise Standby Signal, No. 1 between Sunday night and Monday morning (31 October) as the storm moves at 18 kilometers per hour through the Central China Sea.

Worst hit was Maguindanao, where most of the casualties were caught in raging floodwaters 

The storm’s rainclouds are expected to cause rainshowers tomorrow and drench Hong Kong by Monday.

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 “Under the combined effect of Nalgae and the northeast monsoon, it will be windy over the territory early to midweek next week. Winds will be strong offshore,” the Observatory said. “In midweek next week, winds on high ground may reach gale force…. The Observatory will closely monitor the development of Nalgae and the northeast monsoon.

Residents of Camarines Sur eat while submerged in floodwaters

Storm Nalgae is being closely monitored by Hong Kong because of heavy clouds that can cause floods and landslides, the main causes of 45 deaths recorded so far in the Philippines and hundreds of millions of pesos in damage to crops, as well as public and private properties.

Philippine authorities are considering the declaration of a one-year national calamity because of such damage.

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The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported that 16 out of 17 regions in the country were assessed as high risk for Paeng, with Western Visayas and Bicol regions suffering the most damage.

The NDRRMC said that of the 45 persons killed, 40 were buried by landslides in Maguindanao del Norte.

Rescuers try to dig up a victim from the mud in Maguindanao (FB photo)

Another 14 persons were reported missing and 33 injured.

This prompted President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, presiding over the NDRRMC emergency meeting, to ask why the affected residents were not immediately evacuated.

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 “I would like to start with the flooding in Maguindanao, simply because we have to already look at it dahil ang daming casualty (because there are many casualties),” he lamented.

“So maybe if we could start with there first, just to give me a better idea of what happened, what caused the flooding and bakit hindi natin sila na-evacuate at nagkaganyan ang casualty, napakataas? (why we were not able to evacuate them and the casualties came to this, to many),” he added.

In other regions, local government units brought residents of vulnerable areas to evacuation centers.

In Bicol, at least 15,426 families or 72,089 individuals were brought to evacuation centers, according to Gremil Alexis Naz, spokesperson of Office of Civil Defense–Bicol. Of the total, 15,296 families were in evacuation centers while 130 families were in shelters outside government facilities.

In Negros Occidental, 2,435 families with 9,607 individuals stayed in evacuation centers, Provincial Social Welfare Officer Merle Garcia reported.