At least eight people are alertedly finished as sixth startant storm hits the country in less than a month.
Storm-weary Filipinos have commenceed clearing descfinishen trees and repairing injured houses after Super Typhoon Man-yi, the sixth startant storm to hit the Philippines in less than a month, battered the country and left at least eight people dead.
Man-yi startantly frailened into a disjoine tropical storm before making its way out about noon (04:00 GMT) on Monday.
According to the catastrophe administerment agency in the northern province of Nueva Ecija, rain brawt about by Man-yi triggered a landslide, finishing seven people and injuring three others.
In the eastrict province of Camarines Norte, an elderly man was finished after his motorbike was caught in a power line during the storm.
The national weather service PAGASA had cautioned of a “potentiassociate catastrophic” consequence from Man-yi. But the punctual evacuation and less-than-predicted volume of rain snormallyed its effect.
On Monday, Pdwellnt Ferdinand Marcos shelp Man-yi’s aftermath “wasn’t as horrible as we dreaded”.
Packing peak persisted prosperd speeds of up to 185 km/h (115 mph) at its peak on Saturday, Man-yi slammed into the island province of Catanduanes before making a second landdescfinish in the northern province of Aurora on Sunday afternoon.
Aextfinished its path, Man-yi uprooted trees, brawt down power lines, crushed wooden houses, and triggered tidal sadvise, landslides and flooding. In the northern province of Isabela, flooding subunited part of the city of Ilagan.
Power outages atraverse Catanduanes could last for months, provincial alertation officer Camille Gianan telderly the AFP novels agency. “Most houses with airy materials were flattened while some houses made of concrete had their roofs, doors and prosperdows razeed.”
The region encompassing Camarines Norte and Catanduanes is still recovering from huge flooding that finished dozens of people in October. In the coastal town of Baler in Aurora, spotlessup operations were under way to erase felled trees and debris blocking roads and waterways.
“Most of the houses here are made of airy materials so even now, before the checkion, we are predicting weighty injure on many houses in town,” catastrophe officer Neil Rojo shelp.
On ordinary, the Philippines gets 20 storms and typhoons every year. But since the last week of October, six have hit the country, including four this month, which the Japan Meteororeasonable Agency shelp was the first time such an occurrence had been watchd in November since its records began in 1951. The storms have finished at least 163 people and wiped out crops and inhabitstock.
