Philippines are bracing for another typhoon

Hundreds are dead from the floods of yesterday.. I guess they will be sorry they de-forested their rain forests....for a long time... Old growth jungles protect against this type of disaster
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http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2004-11-30-philippines-landslides_x.htm


Death toll in Philippines storms tops 340
USA Today, VA - 2 hours ago
MANILA (AP) — The death toll from landslides and flash floods in the eastern Philippines jumped to nearly 340 with 150 others missing Tuesday, after a second rainstorm hit a region still reeling from last week's deadly typhoon.

The Philippines is hit with about 20 storms and typhoons a year. A typhoon and another storm in the country's east last week killed at least 87 people and left 80 others missing, and a new typhoon seems to be on the way. The U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon warning center is forecasting that Typhoon Nanmadol could hit the Philippines Thursday or Friday, possibly with winds of 125 mph or stronger.

On Tuesday, Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman, who returned to Manila late Tuesday afternoon from an aerial survey of the area, said 306 people were killed and 150 missing in Quezon province overnight, about 40 miles east of Manila. The Office of Civil Defense reported 19 were killed in Aurora province, eight in Rizal province, and one each in the Manila suburb of Marikina and Camarines Norte province. Other officials reported three died in Bulacan province north of Manila.

Soliman told ABS-CBN television that bad weather and roads blocked by landslides and submerged in flood waters prevented authorities from delivering relief supplies and rescuing people on rooftops



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