Breaking news: Supreme Court has cancelled the bar exams scheduled tomorrow.
Many areas in Metro Manila are flooded.
For people who need assistance: National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) Emergency Numbers: 912-5668, 911-1406, 912-2665, 911-5061. Help hotlines: 734-2118, 734-2120.42 .
If you are home safe, pray for those who are stranded.
We experienced brownout earlier this afternoon. I’m glad that electricity is back.
If you have electricity, charge your cellphones and laptops. Store water from the rain.
Parañaque Rep Rolilo Golez sent out this message at about 3 p.m:
I went all over Parañaque this morning during heavy rains, then to Red Cross Parañaque branch on Sucat for its inauguration and blessing.
But while we were having a blessing, Sucat got flooded up to waist level. My car parked on sidewalk was slowly getting flooded inside as waters entered ground floor of the building.
We are stranded here but as fate would have it, it’s agreatcoincidence that we are here for a blessing. Now stranded adn no more need to mobilize. We are using our time to good use with disaster response action.
I mobilized my brangay coordinators to give reports on flooded areas. Several barangay captains helping. Stranded volunteers here numbering 33 packing emergency food items fro distribution. We need a big truck for distribution of releif goods.
I already advised navy Chief Ferdinand Golez and Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro.
My coordinators report more than 5,000 families affected. Areas that never expereinced flooding inthe past are now flooded.
South Luzon Expressway is closed. Reports said with all the stranded vehicles, it has become a huge parking space.
North Luzon Expressway is impassable.
Kudos to TV and radio reporters who are out braving the flood and storm to give the public updates on the damages that typhoon Ondoy is causing in Metro Manila and relay appeals for help from residents of flooded areas.
The Supreme Court has cancelled the bar exams scheduled tomorrow.
saludo po ako
Just Say No to Plastic Bags!
Kapag wala na si Gloria ay hindi na ganyan katindi ang bagyo sa Pinas!
Ingat kayong lahat d’yan….
My nephew, a junior IT executive just called that water has reached the second floor of the apartment they are renting in Taguig. All their things, appliances are gone. His car is submerged in water. That’s money down the drain.
But we are thankful he is safe and dry. He and his housemates have sought shelter in their landlady’s place.
Globelines are down. We can’t contact him anymore.
Yvonne Chua and her daughter swam five blocks in new Manila from their house in 11th st to rescue her brother who lives in 15th st. She said water was ten feet deep.
Her other brother in nearby subdivision is stranded at the second floor of their home with no food. Appliances and furniture are floating every where.
It’s climate change and Metro Manila is kaput. It’s time Metro Manila should be de-populated. Infrastructure and development should now be spread towards the provinces and rural areas.
These disasters will recur every year. And it will only get worse. Businesses, schools, etc. should start the exodus. Then people will stop moving into M.M. and people in M.M. will start moving out to the provinces.
There’s just too much loss of lives and property. It’s useless continuing to pour money into this toilet bowl.
timing mr. cruz…can’t teach a drowning man to swim (quoted from somewhere). we have to help them get through this first. not saying youre wrong. just save the lecture for after.
whatever happened to this Floodway Project in Pasig? does anyone know kung nagkaron den nang overflow? andun pa naman ang barong barong ko ang i could not contact anybody! waaa!!!
Reynz, diba condo ang haybols mo, kung lulubog man ung unit mo, dedbol na kaming lahat.
Dito sa Pasay, yang ganyang baha early seventies pa last na nangyari. Simula ng nagkaroon ng Pumping Station sa Libertad, nawala na yung almost buong Pasay lubog sa baha. But yesterday was different, grabe talaga, two feet above street level kami pero pinasok ng tubig galing sa shower drain ng mga banyo.
IIsa nalang ang Laguna at Manila Bay.
Grabe! Kung ako nakatira sa Metro Manila ay deadbol na ako, hindi ako marunong lumangoy.
Sana ay humupa na ang tubig sa lahat lugar na binagyo ni Odoy.
Ingat….
tounge,
hindi hi-rise ung condo ko waaaa!!! and i think binaha nga dahil nakita ko sa mapa ang marietta village and parts of de castro, i hope hindi umabot nang first floor kundi yari ang lugar kooooo
When it rains it pours, at times cats and dogs, preceded by Ate Glue escorting wayward OFWs home. Government weatherman said the equivalent of one month’s worth of rain fell on Metro Manila in less than a day. About 34.1 centimeters of rain fell on Metro Manila in just six hours, close to the 39.2-centimeter average for the entire month of September. “However good your drainage system is, it will be overwhelmed by that amount of rainfall,”
Metro Manila is awash today but may suffer the reverse, an El Nino drought come December onwards if predictions come true. As if these were not enough agonies, there are others waiting to pounce — the RFIDs, the failure of elections, more —.
indeed! i just learned that the 1st floor of the entire east ortigas mansions were flooded!
Macshock, rather preachy and sanctimonious, aren’t you? Pray tell, when is the right timing for one to start suggesting that progress and development should move to the provinces so as to avoid so much loss to lives and property in Metro Manila?
preachy? google “pot,” “kettle,” and “black” buddy then look at the mirror.
“It’s useless continuing to pour money into this toilet bowl.” isn’t exactly a suggestion. i must say, youre suggestions had merit. but i’m sure a bunch of our people really appreciate being told THAT even as the waters have not yet receded from their homes.
right timing? maybe when they’re safe, dry, warm and the trauma has left their eyes and they can think straight enough to appreciate what you have to say.
isipin mo na lang, may nalulunod. hirap na hirap na at paunti unti syang tumatalon para lang makahinga. nakikita mo. kaya mong abutan ng salbabida. sigaw mo, “pare, langoy ka, galaw mo kamay mo! ganito mag swimming o!” habang ipinapakito mo pano mag freestyle. sa tingin mo ma-appreciate nya yung turo mo?
e kung inabot mo na lang yung salbabida, binigyan ng pambihis at kumot. at pagnakapag pahinga, dagdag mo na rin cheke at ituro mo sya sa swimming teacher.
sanctimonius, no. insulted, yes.
not about to pick a fight mr. cruz. say what you want. i have yet to hear from my relatives and cant spend extra time listening to drivel. my apologies for wasting your time as well.
Mabuhay si Baya(g)ni Fernando, ang pinakamahusay na MMDA chairman!
Libre tubig sa buong Metro Manila. At least, upang paglanguyan!
My family and I spent the whole night trying to locate missing relatives in Marikina where the flood waters were already up to the roofs. Our ordeal started at 1:00pm yesterday and lasted through till dawn this morning.
We tried everything we could to locate them. Called the TV channels, called the PCG, the NDCC. All lines didn’t answer. Probably too busy. You call the PNP. You call friends and neighbors. You pace up and down. You could hardly think about anything else. Hardly had a wink of sleep worrying. Your heart keeps palpitating.
Only when the waters subsided this morning did we know that they were on the roof of their 2 storey house. Only then were we able to breath and give thanks for such a blessing. We found out they lost everything. No clothes, no food, no transport. We are doing what we can to help them out.
Next time, Macshock, think before insinuating insensitivity to others.
mr. cruz, your relative’s plight saddens me and i pray they are safe and dry.
but i must take exception to the suggestion that i insinuate insensitivity to others. i did not insinuate. i directly called it, in a polite manner i might add. and considering your own plight, i’m sure you would not appreciate your home or your hometown being compared to a toilet bowl that did not deserve help. particularly WHILE the people in it are still in the midst of trying to save their lives and whatever they can. if you still do not get this, that is a burden you alone must carry. i leave the rest for the readers to judge.
if there be any offense in my statement requesting you to hold off the lecture, i’m sure it was only in your mind. and if your ego cannot take being called upon an impropriety, then i suggest you not say anything at all. i will not ask you to think before taking offense. i just ask that you think.
our cities,shld. have a better,bigger drainage system.iyan lang ang sagot sa problemang ito lalo na sa katulad natin na daanan ng bagyo.
lawmakers shld. make law or laws about this.specification of a drainage system,para hindi mag tipid ang mga contractors for more gains.
dapat mas maganda,mas malaki pa sa France at England ang ang lahat na drainage system natin.
73 killed and more than 300,000 affected by Ondoy. That’s only in Metro Manila…
So many factors to consider why this “waterworld” happens in MM, but that should be another topic.
Now, I remember that the late FPJ’s priority project, which was laughed at by many, was to upgrade/modernize the Pag-asa. You still think that the Da King had no brains?!
Macshock, so right. Let the readers judge.