After Haiyan, Philippines now battles incessant rains, floods
22 Jan 2014 12:57 AM GMT
Hundreds of survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall, were forced to flee by tropical depression ‘Agaton’ after emergency shelters were damaged or destroyed on the eastern central island of Samar.
Tents collapsed under the weight of the rain and emergency plastic sheets have been torn away, humanitarian agency Oxfam said.
An average of 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year with Haiyan slamming into central islands on 8 November, killing more than 6,100 and wiping out entire coastal communities in Leyte and Samar.
More than 200,000 people have been taken to shelters over the last three days as flood waters rose, but hundreds were still marooned on the roofs of their houses on Tuesday, said Eduardo del Rosario, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
Del Rosario said 42 people had been killed and 65 had been injured.
After Midwest, frigid temperatures expected in Northeast US
PHILADELPHIA: Some schools are dismissing early and the federal government has closed its offices in the Washington area as a winter storm bears down on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. The National Weather Service says the storm could bring 8 to 12 inches of snow Tuesday to Philadelphia and New York City, and bitterly cold air with wind chills as low as 10 degrees below zero. It warned of heavy winds and hazardous driving conditions as the storm moves up the East Coast. Schools in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky are sending students home early on Tuesday or staying closed for an extra day after the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.
Tents collapsed under the weight of the rain and emergency plastic sheets have been torn away, humanitarian agency Oxfam said.
An average of 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year with Haiyan slamming into central islands on 8 November, killing more than 6,100 and wiping out entire coastal communities in Leyte and Samar.
More than 200,000 people have been taken to shelters over the last three days as flood waters rose, but hundreds were still marooned on the roofs of their houses on Tuesday, said Eduardo del Rosario, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
Del Rosario said 42 people had been killed and 65 had been injured.
After Midwest, frigid temperatures expected in Northeast US
PHILADELPHIA: Some schools are dismissing early and the federal government has closed its offices in the Washington area as a winter storm bears down on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. The National Weather Service says the storm could bring 8 to 12 inches of snow Tuesday to Philadelphia and New York City, and bitterly cold air with wind chills as low as 10 degrees below zero. It warned of heavy winds and hazardous driving conditions as the storm moves up the East Coast. Schools in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky are sending students home early on Tuesday or staying closed for an extra day after the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.
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