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More than 645,000 Filipinos evacuated as tropical storm Nock-ten claims 20 lives

* From: NewsCore
* July 27, 2011 3:32PM

TROPICAL Storm Nock-ten killed 20 people and forced more than 125,000 families into evacuation centers in the Philippines today, local broadcaster ABS-CBN News reported.

National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Director Benito Ramos said most of the fatalities were from the coastal province of Albay, while the rest came from Catanduanes, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Marinduque, Cavite, Quezon and Iloilo.

Ramos said 645,137 Filipinos were now being housed in evacuation camps as Nock-ten, known in the Philippines as Juaning, continued to ravage the country. Nine people were missing this morning.

AFP reported that Nock-ten was expected to hit the heavily populated central section of the main Luzon Island this afternoon, before blowing out into the South China Sea some time tomorrow.

School were closed today in Manila, about 100 kilometres to the south of Nock-ten's direct path.

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Scores Killed In Philippines Flooding
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By Mark Dunphy - Thu Aug 04
The combined death toll from Tropical Storm Juaning and Typhoon Kabayan in the Philippines has risen to at least 74 while nearly two dozen others remain missing, the government said on Thursday.
Juaning made landfall in several parts of the Philippines late last month, including central and northern Luzon, causing most of the casualties. But Kabayan, even though the center of the typhoon remained far from land, also affected some parts of the country.
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Typhoon Nalgae Batters Northern Philippines After Making Landfall
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Residents wade through floodwaters after typhoons submerged a church, homes and other establishments in Calumpit, Bulacan province, north of Manila.
October 1, 2011.
MANILA, Oct 1 (Bernama) -- Typhoon Nalgae (local name Quiel) landed on northern Philippines before noon on Saturday, packing winds up to 195 km per hour, according to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration ( PAGASA).
The typhoon, the second in a week, is expected to go through five provinces on Luzon island in north Philippines Saturday afternoon.
Metro Manila and some surrounding areas are under signal number 1.
Nalgae could worsen the floods on Luzon's central plains, Palafox said as major dams in the north are almost at bursting levels.

Faustino Dy, governor of Isabela province, said hundreds of people in coastal areas had been evacuated as rain and wind cut power and communications lines, uprooted trees and blocked roads with debris.

The damage bill from Typhoon Nesat stood at 6 billion pesos ($137 million), the disaster agency said. More than 180,000 people fled to shelters in dozens of towns north of Manila.

The weather bureau said another storm was developing in the Pacific and might hit the northern Philippines late next week. :o
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At least 50 dead as flooding ravages Philippines

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* December 17, 2011 4:33PM

TROPICAL storm Washi has unleashed widespread floods across southern Philippines, killing at least 50 people as 20,000 soldiers were mobilized in a huge relief operation.

Forty-five people drowned on Mindanao island, including 40 in Iligan, while five were killed in a landslide in the east of the island, civil defense official Benito Ramos told AFP. Other reports put the death toll as high as 70.

Iligan mayor Lawrence Cruz described rampaging floodwaters from swollen rivers that swamped at least 10 villages on the city's outskirts.

"It happened so fast, at a time when people were fast asleep," Cruz told GMA television.

The station showed dramatic pictures of a family escaping out of the window of their home as floodwaters rose, and rescue workers in orange vests shepherding survivors to safety above chest-deep floodwaters.

The army mobilized 20,000 soldiers to help in rescue and evacuation efforts on Mindanao, which bore the brunt of the cyclone, Ramos told AFP.

"The storm was moving slowly so it dumped a lot of rain over the area. The flooding is extensive," Ramos said.

Iligan tourism officer Pat Noel said waters began rising shortly before midnight Friday as people slept, sweeping houses made of light materials and their inhabitants along the riverbanks.

"Many of them told me they sought refuge on their rooftops," he said after joining the first wave of rescuers at daybreak.

"By the time I arrived they were sweeping thick mud out of their homes and the water on the street was down to knee level," Noel said, adding that two of three rivers that flow into the port of Iligan had overflowed.

A popular radio commentator was among those killed, he added.

Weather forecasters said the eye of the storm passed close to Dipolog city near Iligan early Saturday and Washi was now heading out to the Sulu Sea.

The large western island of Palawan to the northwest lies directly in the path of the storm, with winds of 65km/h.

The Philippines is struck by about 20 major storms annually, with most hitting Luzon, the largest and most populous island in the Southeast Asian archipelago.

Two typhoons, Nesat and Nalgae, hit the country within days of each other from late September, leaving more than 100 people dead, while tropical storm Banyan killed another eight people in October.
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Thanks for starting this Crikey. Very sad news, over 440 dead that I last read :( This weather, so fascinating but so destructive.
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