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Videos on the Disaster in Philipines as a result of Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=923IKL9Lij4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqAdaiCZBQ4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bCW7IkICKA
Source: AP, 3 Oct 09
MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos braced Friday to be whipped by powerful winds and pelted with rain from a second typhoon in eight days, fleeing by the tens of thousands from low-lying areas and suspending cleanup operations in the flooded capital. Cedric Daep, a top disaster official in the Philippines’ Albay province, said officials there had evacuated almost 50,000 people to shelters on higher ground. Parts of the capital, Manila, were still awash from the worst floods in 40 years caused by Ketsana on Sept. 26. Earlier this week, the storm that flooded the Philippines, Ketsana, then hit Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos; 293 died in the Philippines, 99 in Vietnam, 14 in Cambodia and 16 in Laos.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i6eatUwlDQQIHZiKqXjLHTmQSrogD9B34K500
MANILA, Oct 3, 2009 (AFP) - Typhoon Parma pummeled the northern Philippines on Saturday, toppling trees and cutting off power and telephone lines, as its rains threatened to bring more misery to millions of flood survivors in Manila. Residents said extremely strong winds and rains began lashing the northern province of Cagayan after midday (0400 GMT), hours before the typhoon was expected to make landfall there in the evening. “The wind is very, very angry,” Cagayan region police chief Director Roberto Damian said in a radio interview from his headquarters, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) from the Philippine capital. “I can see trees are being toppled inside our camp… One sturdy Narra tree was uprooted and smashed a car and a house. We cannot go out,” he said in a radio interview before his line went dead.
Heavy rain showers had already fallen across Manila on Friday night and Saturday morning, adding to the burden of the sprawling city of 12 million people that was awash with flooding six-metres (20-feet) high last Saturday.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SNAA-7WGAML?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=TC-2009-000205-PHL
Calamity Bridges Gap Between Rich and Poor in the Philippines
The fury of typhoon ‘Ondoy’, has rendered thousands of Metro Manila residents homeless and dislocated. But the rain-filled typhoon has succeeded in bridging the gap between the rich and the poor in the Philippines. Everyone, rich or poor, celebrities, politicians, professionals and ordinary citizens became victims of the tagic fury of ‘Ondoy’. As the tragic event unfolds, every resident in the affected areas had only himself, his family and his neighbors to cling on as no one, not even government rescue workers could enter the flooded areas. The streets of Metro manila were clogged with floating vehicles that were carried by flood waters from where they were parked prior to the rising flood waters. Thousands of commuters and motorists were stranded in the streets of Metro Manila as the whole metropolis remain on standstill for days. The affected areas could only be reached via rubber boats or smaller rubber boats. But transporting these boats to the affected areas proved difficult to rescue workers as almost all streets in the metropolis were also submerged. As ‘Ondoy’ exited the Philippine area of responsibility, affected residents were hoping that floodwater will quickly subside but to the surprise of government officials, flood waters remain almost stationary. Three days after the typhoon, many residents were still seen on roof top of their homes without food and extra clothing.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/280001
Image Source: ReliefWeb
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/09/30/ketsana-typhoon-cambodia-vietnam-phillipines.html
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