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Flood crisis far from over, residents of flooded C. Luzon towns warned
By Charlie V. Manalo
10/02/2011
Typhoon “Quiel” yesterday battered the northern part of Luzon and brought fresh misery for more than a million people still trapped by floods from a storm earlier this week, officials said.
Quiel swept out into the South China Sea at 3 p.m. after a six-hour rampage on the main island of Luzon, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said.
Landslides killed one person and blocked roads in the mountainous north, but the disaster could be far from over because water runoff now threatens the already flooded plains north of Manila, said disaster management chief Benito Ramos.
“The runoff from the Cordillera (mountain range) would hit them in eight, nine, 10 hours,” he told a televised news conference, noting that dams and watersheds upstream could not hold much more water..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20111002hed2.html
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"The earlier typhoon killed 50 persons and left 31 others missing last Tuesday, according to a government tally.
"It said about 180,000 persons were at state-run evacuation centres, mostly those displaced by Pedring."
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