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Typhoon Mina Update - Bicol Region
7AM November 24, 2007 Bikol
Movement for Disaster Response (BMDR)
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Surprisingly, Typhoon Mina has changed direction and weather specialists
forecast it will not directly hit the Bicol region. But its strong winds and
heavy rain has already caused water in Lake Buhi and Lake Bato in
Camarines Sur to overflow. It has submerged the agricultural plains in
Camarines Sur and Albay. And it has caused soil and rock movements
resulting in landslides and mudslides in Catanduanes, Albay and Camarines
Sur.
The necessity to move to safety close to a quarter of the Bicol population led
to the successive declarations of a state of calamity in different towns in
Camarines Sur and Catanduanes and the entire province of Albay. Reported
figures by local coordinating councils only account for those in public
evacuation centers. The number of affected persons will surely increase if
we add those who evacuated to private establishments and to homes of
relatives.
But whether typhoon Mina directly hits the Bicol Region or not, fact is, there
are already thousands of evacuees. For a week now, the lives of these
persons have been disrupted. Until today, evacuees from previous
supertyphoon Reming remain in evacuation centers and makeshift shelters.
They are part of the 8,000 families who are still homeless a year after
supertyphoon Reming. Last week’s typhoon Lando damaged P18 million
worth of palay and P17.44 million worth of corn according to DA Central
Action Center.
And whether typhoon Mina directly hits the Bicol Region or not, relief
assistance and rehabilitation projects are much needed to improve the lives
of those living in disaster prone areas, a decisive factor in building disaster
resilient communities in the long run.
Thus, our call for assistance to families in disaster prone areas in the Bicol
region remains.
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