Air Force personnel unload a water purifier machine from a Philippine Air Force C-130 plane that arrived in Lumbia Airport, Cagayan de Oro City on Monday. Most of Cagayan de Oro is left without water when many of its water
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/20 December) – Looking for your mother, father, wife, husband, daughter, son, brother, sister who have been missing since Saturday’s flashfloods? Go to the city’s dumpsite. That’s where they dumped your loved ones for you to
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 December) — An outpouring of outrage among netizens of the social networking site, Facebook, greeted the news that decomposing corpses of victims of Saturday’s flash floods were dumped in the city’s landfill in Zayas, Carmen
View Typhoon Sendong in a larger map UPDATED: 6a.m. of December 21, 2011. NOTE: Figures on this map are based on the situation reports (sitreps) of the the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) while the path of
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 December) – As a journalist, I have covered so many tragedies in Mindanao: wars, floods, landslides, bombings, massacres, airplane crashes, etc.. I have cried with relatives of the dead and the missing but I was not prepared for what I saw at noon in the city’s landfill in Zayas, Barangay Carmen.
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/18 December) – “The worst ever,” 81-year old Elena Mansueto, owner of the Mansueto Funeral Homes, said of Saturday’s flashfloods that claimed the lives of at least 194 fellow Iliganons. Mansueto has been in the funeral business since
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 December) – The power transmission grid in Mindanao remained intact in the aftermath of tropical storm “Sendong” (international name “Washi), which killed hundreds and devastated the northern part of the island, the grid’s operator said on
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 December) – A reader from Worcester, England, reacting to my December 17 column “The other culprit,” shared commonsensical ideas on how to mitigate, if not completely prevent, the occurrence of floods in cities. Our reader cited the
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 Dec) – Malaybalay Bishop Jose A. Cabantan cited “climate sins” as the root cause of the flashfloods experienced brought by typhoon Sendong in Northern Mindanao even as he called for hope and prayers for the victims. Cabantan
Flood victims pick on donated dry clothes in Sitio Basak, Barangay Macasandig, Cagayan de Oro City after last Saturday’s flood that destroyed villages beside Cagayan de Oro River. MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo | More Photos
The situation in 2009, where Cagayan de Oro City was hit by three floods (Jan. 3, Jan. 7 and Jan. 14), was that abnormal rainfall, which totalled about 400mm or one-fourth of the annual rainfall average, hitting the city in the first 14 days of the year. Compared to Dec. 17, 2011 floods, records in PAGASA was 180mm, or 3x the December average rainfall (63mm).
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 Dec) – The Sangguniang Panlungsod of Davao City has unanimously approved an ordinance authorizing Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio to donate P3 million from the calamity fund for the three cities in Mindanao badly hit by tropical storm “Sendong.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 Dec) – Australia has allocated some Aus$10.5 million (PhP457 million) for humanitarian assistance to victims of recent calamities that affected the Asia-Pacific region, including the devastating floods in several parts of Mindanao over the weekend that
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