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UPDATES OF THE SITUATION IN THE SOUTHEAST ASIA ON 13 OCTOBER 2009

 

http://www.gmanews.tv/index.html

 

Residents of Taytay, Rizal wait in waist-deep flood for relief goods to be distributed Monday by World Food Programme Philippines. Veejay Villafranca-WFP

 

At the Puguis Elementary School in La Trinidad, Benguet, Tuesday, President Arroyo hands out relief goods to landslide survivors. Thom Picana

 

Air Force personnel help Catherine Vicente, a landslide survivor from Atok, Benguet after she was airlifted Tuesday to a hospital in Baguio. Dave Leprozo

 

Baguio woes to ease as three major roads partially reopen

Baguio City’s isolation caused by landslides and lowland floods is expected to ease with the partial reopening Tuesday of two more major roads leading there, allowing the delivery of limited supplies of food, fuel, and relief goods. Last weekend was the first time all roads to the tourist resort city were closed since the 1990 earthquake.

 

RELATED STORIES

 

» Fake branded clothes to be donated to cyclone victims

 

» Relief goods for flood victims continue to pour in from abroad

 

» Pepeng damage in Benguet almost P700M

 

» Senate panel OKs P12B supplemental budget for Ondoy victims

 

» Operasyon ng dam, budget sa kalamidad ipinasusuri sa Senado

 

Rain-loosened mountain soil endangers Ifugao hospital

LAGAWE, Ifugao – Typhoon Pepeng’s onslaught in northern Luzon has loosened the mountain soil in this capital town, which now threatens to bury the provincial hospital together with some 50 families who live within the hospital’s perimeter.

Citing reports from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB), provincial officials said a nearby mountain slope is in precarious condition, and continuous rainfall of at least four days may induce a landslide that could cover the whole hospital structure. :(

Albert Indunan, Ifugao Governor Teodoro Baguilat’s executive assistant, told reporters that the ground itself on which the hospital building sits has also weakened due to the torrential rains brought by “Pepeng."

“MGB cautioned us that mountain soil and debris could totally engulf the entire hospital even for a few days of nonstop rainfall," Indunan said.

Ifugao’s 50-bed provincial hospital, located in Natuolan village along mountain slopes, was built in the 1980s. Indunan said the soil where the 30-year old provincial hospital building was constructed has become precarious.

“As among the ten areas in the country that are landslide prone, we who live in the Cordilleras know for a fact that the condition of the soil here is unstable," he added.

The recent typhoon that dumped record high rainfall in Northern Luzon has killed 238 in the Cordilleras alone as of last count.

The provincial government allayed fears of hospital patients and nearby residents, saying that preparations have already been made for the expected arrival of more rains in October and November.

At the same time, a new hospital building is expected to rise soon away from danger zone.

According to Indunan, the national government through the Department of Health has already committed 50 percent of the P100 million total cost for the construction of a new 75-bed medical facility in the capital town. - Floro Taguinod, GMANews.TV

 

OTHER REGIONS STORIES

 

Food shortage in islands off Cagayan feared - 10/13/2009 | 07:55 PM

Food and medical supplies in the islands dotting the Babuyan Chanel off the coast of Cagayan province are dwindling fast.

 

Pepeng damage in Benguet almost P700M - 10/13/2009 | 07:22 PM

Aside from recording the biggest number of deaths caused by typhoon “Pepeng," Benguet has also suffered millions of pesos in damage to infrastructure, agriculture, and private property.

 

High tide aggravates flooding in 3 Bulacan towns - 10/13/2009 | 10:38 AM

The high tide in Manila Bay on Monday worsened the flooding in three towns in Bulacan province on Tuesday, according to the head of the Central Luzon’s Office of Civil Defense.

 

ALPA near Mindanao threatens to become cyclone - 10/13/2009 | 07:48 AM :(

A weather disturbance near Mindanao that has intensified into an active low-pressure area (ALPA) is threatening to intensify into another tropical cyclone.

 

Arroyo orders relocation of residents in Benguet, Mt. Province - 10/13/2009 | 12:39 AM

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has ordered the immediate relocation of residents in landslide-prone areas in Benguet, Baguio City and Mountain Province.

 

Low pressure area spotted off Mindanao - 10/13/2009 | 12:24 AM

The country has yet to recover from the devastation wrought by "Ondoy" and "Pepeng" but state weather forecasters on Monday said it is monitoring another low pressure area (LPA) that is poised to enter the country.

In its 5 p.m. bulletin, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said that as of 2 p.m. Monday, the LPA was spotted 790 kilometers east of northern Mindanao."

Visayas and Mindanao will experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. Luzon will have partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms," Pagasa said.

Light to moderate winds blowing from the Northeast would prevail over Luzon and Visayas coming from the Northeast and North over Mindanao, it added.

The coastal waters throughout the archipelago will be slight to moderate except during thunderstorms. - Aie Balagtas See, GMANews.TV

 

BAD NEWS: THE ALPA = ACTIVE LOW-PRESSURE AREA NEAR MINDANAO THREATENS TO BECOME CYCLONE

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UNICEF NEWS

 

Unicef.org news (1:30am, 14/10-09 Central European Time):

 

Unicef.org news (1:30am, 14/10-09 Central European Time):

 

Back to school in Samoa

 

UNICEF and partners provide a safe environment for tsunami-affected children

 

UNICEF in Emergencies

 

PHILIPPINES: Executive Director visits flood-stricken areas

Indonesia: UNICEF delivers hygiene kits to quake zone

 

India: Flash floods affect 2 million people

 

UNICEF seeks $3 million for children affected by Indonesian earthquake

 

UN Flash Appeal of nearly $75 million for assistance to victims of Ketsana / Ondoy

 

Back to school in Samoa: UNICEF and partners provide a safe environment for tsunami-affected children.

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RED CROSS NEWS / http://www.redcross.org/ B]

 

AmeriCorps Contributes to Red Cross Relief Efforts in American Samoa

 

A Texas-sized Show of Support for National Guard Troops

 

Red Cross Aids Storm-Plagued PHILIPPINES (see below)

 

Red Cross Blog

 

Disaster Online Newsroom [/b ]

 

Red Cross Aids Storm-Plagued PHILIPPINES (Friday, October 09, 2009)

Typhoon Parma is back. After cutting through the north part of the Philippines a week ago, it reversed course and returned on Friday morning as a tropical storm. Contending with widespread flooding, the global Red Cross network is now responding to immense humanitarian needs from this disaster as well as the recent Typhoon Ketsana.

Staff and volunteers with the Philippine National Red Cross are helping hundreds of thousands of people in evacuation centers across the country. The government estimates that nearly 40,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed by the storms.

“Multiple Red Cross responses during the past two weeks emphasize the value of our global network,” says Alex Mahoney, manager of disaster programs for Asia with the American Red Cross. “The Philippine National Red Cross was already on the ground, responding immediately to local needs. Meanwhile, we are sending financial assistance, supplies and a shelter specialist to support their relief operation.”

Specifically, the American Red Cross has mobilized aid to help those that need it most:

It is providing $950,000 in financial assistance and relief supplies to address the typhoons' impact in the Philippines and Vietnam.

It has tapped its pre-positioned stocks for both of these countries, sending thousands of insecticide-treated bed nets, jerry cans and blankets from its warehouse in Kuala Lumpur.

It has also sent an expert in shelter coordination to assist with local operations in the Philippines.

 

On the ground, the Philippine National Red Cross has been providing food aid to more than 40,000 families, as well as other relief items like hygiene kits.

 

You can help the victims of countless crises around the world each year by making a financial gift to the American Red Cross International Response Fund, which will provide immediate relief and long-term support through supplies, technical assistance and other support to help those in need.

 

DONATIONS to the International Response Fund can be sent to the American Red Cross, P.O. Box 37243, Washington, D.C. 20013 or made by phone at 1-800-REDCROSS or 1-800-257-7575 (Spanish) or online at http://www.redcross.org.

http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.1a019a978f421296e81ec89e43181aa0/?vgnextoid=949551d37a934210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD

 

On Oct. 9, the American Red Cross received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. government for typhoon relief in the Philippines. The grantor - the U.S. Agency for International Development - administers the U.S. foreign assistance program, providing economic and humanitarian assistance in more than 120 countries worldwide.

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UPDATES ON SITUATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA 14/10-09

 

http://www.gmanews.tv/index.html

 

62 towns in the nation's rice granary still flooded (10/13/2009 | 09:30 PM )

Three days after Typhoon Pepeng exited Philippine territory, vast areas in central Luzon remain flooded, with the nation's leading palay-producing province, Nueva Ecija, suffering from the most widespread flooding. Arayat town in Pampanga province - without the media attention directed at other towns - is enduring the deepest floodwaters, up to seven feet.

Data culled by GMA News Research from the Regional Office of Civil Defense for Central Luzon showed that as of Tuesday 23 out of Nueva Ecija's 32 towns, or nearly 72 percent, are still dealing with floods, although the waters are less than a foot deep or not as bad as those in adjacent towns of nearby provinces.

In 2008, Nueva Ecija topped the nation in rice production with 1,372,378 metric tons, more than 300,000 metric tons more than second leading producer Isabela. Nueva Ecija also led the nation in onion production.

A close study of the map shows that the provinces of Tarlac, Pampanga, and Bulacan still have a total of 11 towns that are submerged in at least two feet of water.

These include the towns of Arayat, Bacolor, Masantol, San Luis, Macabebe and Sto. Tomas in Pampanga; La Paz, Paniqui, Moncada and San Manuel in Tarlac province; and Calumpit in Bulacan province.

Tarlac is the country's seventh leading rice producer with over a half million metric tons in 2008.

In Pampanga, Arayat town suffered the worst flooding, with five of its barangays (villages) submerged in six to seven-foot deep floodwaters. This was followed by Bacolor and Masantol towns.

In Bulacan, Calumpit town was flooded by at least four feet, while in Tarlac, La Paz town remained submerged in at least three feet.

 

Meanwhile, floods in the following areas (orange) have already receded:

Palayan City, Nueva Ecija;

Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija;

Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija;

Licab, Nueva Ecija;

Sta. Ana, Pampanga; and

Guagua, Pampanga.

» DPWH sees full repair of roads to Baguio in 1 month

 

» Flooding in Albay province prompts evacuations

 

» NDCC: ‘Pepeng’ death toll now 375, damage breaches P8B mark ____________________________

 

BBC World Service Text TV: Tsunami Drill across Indian Ocean:

18 countries in the Indian Ocean region are taking part in an exercise to evaluate the response of the region's tsunami early warning systems. The test will simulate the earthquake that struck off the northwest coast of Sumatra 2004 when 250,000 people were killed - more than half of them in the Indonesian province of Aceh. The drill is taking place today on the World Disaster Reduction Day. ZDF Text TV also mentioned this drill taking place on the "Welttag zur Katastrophenbekämpfung".

 

ZDF Text TV: Suffering following natural disasters: UN: 2,3 mio people died (in the past 3 decades).

According to information given by UN, 2,3 mio. people died in the past 3 decades from 1975 to 2008. 8,000 earthquakes, storms, floodings, landslides and fires caused enormous human suffering and vast devastations. In particular people in the poor countries are struck by these disasters.

 

Danish DR1: INDONESIA: Those missing after the earthquakes now declared dead

300 missing are now declared dead, so that the official death toll now amounts to 1,115 people. Enormous relief operations are on-going to help thousands of people who are homeless due to the earthquakes. The heaviest earthquake measured 7,6 richter and damaged Padang severely - Padang is a city of more than 1 mio inhabitants.

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NEWS FROM DANISH RED CROSS 14/10-09:

 

http://drk.dk/nyheder/nyheder/myggenet+til+tyfonofre

 

MOSQUITO NETS TO TYPHOON VICTIMS

 

After two severe typhoons hit the Philippines last month, the Danish Red Cross now sends emergency aid for the equivalent of 750,000 Danish kroner.

 

Responsible for page: Julie Lorenzen. Edited on 14 October 2009

 

It corresponded to a whole month's rain, when the typhoon "Ketsana" hit the Philippines on 26th September and laid much of the capital Manila under water. Following "Ketsana", the typhoon "Parma" ravaged in the northern part of the country and resulted in severe flooding and landslides.

 

Over six million people are affected by both natural disasters, at least 530 have died while more than 400 are wounded.

 

Emergency aid for the equivalent of 750,000 Danish kroner

 

The situation is now so serious that the Danish Red Cross sends emergency aid for the equivalent of 750,000 Danish kroner - the money will go to buy 11,000 mosquito nets, 3,050 water cans, 1,500 hygiene kits and 383 kitchen sets to the many victims. The money comes from the Foreign Ministry's trade allocation.

 

Appeals recently issued

The goods, Danish Red Cross sends to the Philippines, is a contribution to the appeal of just 34 million Danish kroner that the International Red Cross has just issued. Money from the appeal will go to help 200,000 people for one year with, among other, relief, clean water and medical care.

 

Diarrhea and skin diseases ravaging

The two typhoons have resulted in almost 20,000 families having lost their homes, while more than 46,000 houses have been destroyed. Many are still forced to live in their partially flooded homes.

The number of cases of diarrhea and skin diseases increases with the recession of the water masses.

 

Volunteers work around the clock

Thousands of volunteers from the Filipino Red Cross has since 26 September worked around the clock to help the many affected and traumatized people with i.a. first aid and psychological support.

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http://www.gmanews.tv/story/174656/downstream-no-time-to-escape-a-dams-deluge

 

Downstream, no time to escape a dam's deluge

ANDREO CALONZO and SOPHIA DEDACE, GMANews.TV10/14/2009 | 09:28 PM

 

Before the flood came the siren.

In the midst of Typhoon Pepeng’s powerful downpour, Gerald Lomibao, 23, a resident of Binmaley, a town four hours drive from San Roque Dam, heard the siren. Then barangay tanods rushed by to remind him that the siren meant that the dam was about to release water and Gerald and his family had three hours to evacuate to higher ground.

 

But in 15 minutes the flood had arrived, creeping steadily higher until the Lomibao family had to flee to an upper floor.

 

As the worst floods in the history of Pangasinan slowly subside, and residents ponder their ruined homes and property, the inadequacy of warning given by both the dam operators and local governments is only one issue that is spurring outrage from residents, senators, and activists,

 

Pangasinan’s provincial government and Senator Chiz Escudero have threatened to file law suits against the San Roque Power Corporation, which operates the dam along the Agno River. Senate hearings began Wednesday morning on the role the dam’s water release played in the flood.

 

The region received a record amount of rainfall starting October 8, compelling the dam operators to release enormous flows of water that eventually found its way into the homes of the Lomibaos and ten of thousands of Pangasinan residents. A dam that fills up and overflows is in danger of collapsing.

 

“With or without the dam, standard operating procedure," said Romualdo Beltran, the director for Dam, Reservoirs and Waterways Division the National Power Corporation (Napocor), which owns the San Roque Dam. Beltran spoke at a forum on the flood at the University of the Philippines Diliman campus on Tuesday.

 

Engineering professors at the forum questioned the timing of the water release. "Why did they have to wait for the water to almost overflow before opening the gates?" Guillermo Tabios III of the National Hydraulic Research Center asked. "They should have released water as early as October 4, when the water already exceeded 280 meters."

 

Beltran said no one knew that Pepeng would bring a 100 year rain, meaning rainfall that occurs only once every century. The heaviness of the downpour filled up the reservoir so quickly that all six gates of the dam had to be opened.

 

Pangasinan provincial administrator Rafael Baraan, in the midst of relief operations in his still-flooded province, lamented the rate of release.

 

They told us they will release water by Thursday afternoon. They said they would release 2,500 cubic meters per second. But by 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. Friday, they were already releasing 5,072 cubic meters of water.

 

“Why would they release so much water in so little time?"

 

It’s that same water that Gerald Lomibao and his family had no time to escape. At the time of this posting Wednesday evening, the Lomibaos and four other families were huddled on the second floor of the Lomibao home, with waist-deep water barely moving on the ground floor. – GMANews.TV

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Anyone from the Philippines

 

Hello,

 

You can read news about the situation in Southeast Asia on the thread:

 

"Updates of the situation in the Southeast Asia" and also on the thread:

"Help Red Cross and Unicef Help Victims of Natural Disasters"

 

Special Philippines-related news updates can be read on: "The Philippines need your help" and "Californians please donate goods to aid the Philippines".

 

There might come a cyclone this week-end to the northern part of Luzon and on to Vietnam. Another good source is GMA News.TV.

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