Driven EVACUATIONS, CURFEW
The wind forecaster warned of “widespread incidents of extreme flooding and floods” on Catanduanes area in the typhoon-prone Bicol region.
More than 400 people were crammed into Virac’s municipal government building, according to provincial crisis official Roberto Monterola, who added that newcomers were being directed to a gymnasium.
Due to concerns that storm surges was encroach upon their homes, Monterola claimed he had dispatched troops to push about 100 people to move inland in two coastal villages close to Virac.
Areas outside the predicted land zone does experience heavy rain, intense winds, and surprise surges, the forecaster warned.
In a bet to compel people to stay inside, the president of Naga City in Camarines Sur state put a law in place from noon on Saturday.
BACK TO” SQUARE ONE”
Hazard official Rei Josiah Echano criticized the region’s poverty as the primary result of the damage caused by typhoons in Northern Samar province.
” Whenever there’s a typhoon like this, it brings us back to the mediaeval era, we go ( back ) to square one”, Echano told AFP, as the province prepared for the onslaught of Man-yi.
All warships, including oil tankers and fishing boats, must either remain in the harbor or go back to shore.
Almost 4, 000 people were stranded after the seacoast watch shut 55 ships.
The geological agency also warned large rain dumped by Man-yi may cause flows of geological sediment, or lahars, from three volcanos, including Taal, north of Manila.
The Philippines will be hit by Man-yi later in the storms season because most hurricanes form between July and October.
The Japan Meteorological Agency reported to AFP on Saturday that this was the first time a storm had sprang into the Pacific valley since records began in 1951, and that four winds had been clustered together in the Pacific lake at the same time earlier this month.