CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga -- — Despite
sunny weather, backflow of floods in Nueva Ecija and Pampanga during super typhoon
“Lawin” has now submerged 21 low-lying barangays (villages) in Calumpit,
Bulacan and 34 more in the towns of Macabebe, San Luis, San Simon, and Apalit
in Pampanga.
It was supposed to be
a smiling sunny day in Calumpit Tuesday, but as residents stepped out of their
homes they found themselves wading through flood with a height of 2 feet – and
in some areas even four feet.
Car owners had to
move their vehicles to high ground. The Calumpit-Hagonoy Road was impassable to
light vehicles in the area of San Jose, Purok 1.
A natural catch basin
in Central Luzon, Calumpit began to take in water from Nueva Ecija and Pampanga
at 6 p.m. Sunday and by 6 a.m. yesterday, 21 villages of the town were already
under water, said Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer Liz
Mungcal.
Governor Wilhelmino
M. Sy-Alvarado has already ordered the deployment of rescue teams to help
stranded residents move to safer ground.
He said the initial
number of families affected by the flooding was 14,439 or 68,190 individuals.
Alvarado said the
PDRRMC is also monitoring Bulacan’s riverside areas of Hagonoy, Paombong,
Plaridel and Pulilan as backflow from the Pampanga river system continues
The Regional Disaster
Risk Reduction Management Council 3 (RDRRMC3) said floods also continued to
torment 34 areas in Pampanga.
It said all 24
barangays in Macabebe were still experiencing between 1-foot and 1-foot-high
flooding and so goes with three villages in San Luis; five in San Simon; and
two in Apalit.
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