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| Photo from MDRRMO San Jose dB |
On July 27, 2012, the low pressure before
turning into a tropical depression brought huge amount of rain causing flooding
in barangays Bugarot, Bariri and Durog. Also, a portion of the rain-softened Binirayan Hills had a minor
landslide in Brgy. 5. damaging a house.
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| Minor landslide in Brgy. 5. Photo from MDRRMO San Jose dB |
The incidents affected approximately 51 families leaving one homeless. Eleven families
were at the evacuation centers and 40 families stayed with relatives.
Estimated damage
to properties is P75,000.00. Damage to agriculture is undetermined yet.
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| Barangay folks trying to save their fishing equipment. Photo from MDRRMO San Jose dB |
On the morning of July 31, strong winds due to enhanced southwest monsoon with 1.8 meter tide caused storm surge affecting Brgy. 4, Brgy. 8, Maybato North, Maybato South and Malaiba.
As of 2:00
pm, an estimated 24 families were affected by the storm surge leaving six
families homeless. Six families are at the evacuation centers while 18 are staying
with relatives.
Estimated
damage to properties excluding damage to fisheries amount to P775,000.00.
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| Response Operation to July 31 Storm Surge. Photo from MDRRMO San Jose dB |
The barangays
in cooperation with the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and ManagementCouncil (MDRRMC) have conducted response and relief operation and the Municipal
government is prepared to augment barangay relief supplies anytime.
Plans of
forced evacuation are being discussed with the affected barangays if strong
winds continue on August 1 with an expected high tide of two meters.
I noticed the term storm surge in this blog and it happened a year and a half before the Yolanda. How come people in Tacloban seem to not know the term storm surge. As a matter of fact it has been admitted in the mainstream media that very little people know about the meaning of storm surge and that includes a lot of public officials. A phrase too easy to learn yet costs thousands of lives
ReplyDeleteOne, people in the Philippines have a long term memory problem. We don't remember much what happened in the past. Second, we don't learn much from vicarious learning. Kailangang pagdaanan muna bago pa matuto. Third, Baka di naintindihan ng mga tao ang storm surge. Dito sa amin ang tawag ng mga taong nakatira malapit sa dagat ay "daluyon."
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