LPA threatens Negros with flash floods
02/13/2012The sufferings of earthquake-affected residents of Negros Oriental continued as a low pressure area (LPA) yesterday started bringing heavy rains in the province, threatening the landslide-hit areas with possible flash floods.
In fact, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) yesterday suspended retrieval operations in landslide-hit areas of Guihulngan and La Libertad due to heavy rains spawned by the LPA.
NDRRMC executive director Undersecretary Benito Ramos said that the LPA is affecting Negros Oriental province bringing heavy rains that prompted the stoppage to the search and retrieval operations for 64 persons who remained unaccounted for after last Monday’s magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20120213nat2.html
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