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TYPHOON
Mina battered the whole of Northern Luzon on Monday
hours after it made landfall in Palanan, Isabela, Sunday
evening, spawning heavy flooding and a landslide to
force the evacuation of more than 1,000 people while
damaging at least P109 million thus far in crops.
National
Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) spokesman Dr.
Anthony Golez said the typhoon inundated the towns of
Piat, Rizal and Tuao in Cagayan province, but if there
were any casualties, they were yet to be reported.
A
landslide also occurred along the Ilocos-Cagayan road,
particularly near the town of Pagudpud in Ilocos Norte,
paralyzing traffic between the two provinces.
Golez
said 284 families or 1,110 persons are now housed in 14
evacuation centers in Cagayan Valley.
He said
a total of 30,844 families or 141,863 people nationwide
are now in 21 evacuation centers as a result of Typhoons
Mina and Lando, which had left the country; but weather
officials said it appeared to be returning.
The NDCC
said both typhoons have already destroyed 6,075 hectares
of agricultural crops worth P109,648, 281.
As Mina
was pummeling Northern Luzon, the weather office Pagasa
announced in a press conference at the NDCC office in
Camp Aguinaldo on Monday that Lando was on the way to
reentering the country’s area of responsibility, also in
the afternoon.
“Lando
will make landfall in northwestern
Palawan late Tuesday evening and would hit
Mindoro
Island, the Bondoc Peninsula, the southern portion of
Quezon province and Camarines Norte,” said Science
Undersecretary Graciano Yumul.
Yumul
said Lando will be out in the
Philippine Sea by Thursday where it will merge with tropical
depression “Nonoy.” They then will head for
Japan,
wetting the eastern seaboard with more rain.
Before
Mina touched land on Sunday, the NDCC reported that
eight people died from drowning and electrocution in
Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur. Two others were
reported missing in Apayao Province in the Ilocos
region.
He said
Mina’s strong rains and winds forced the San Nicolas
power line in Ilocos Norte to “trip,” triggering power
outages in the province and in Isabela. The typhoon also
affected mobile phone signals in Aurora and Isabela
provinces. |
