Mother-of-three Marissa Cueva Alejandro, 36, who grew up in Catanduanes and sheltered with a sibling during Man-yi, said storms were getting stronger.
” Before, we would only experience (typhoon ) signal number three to four, but now typhoons are getting as strong as signal number five”, she said, referring to the weather service’s five-tiered wind warning system.
The archipelago region has been ravaged by Man-yi for the fifth time in a month. In the previous hurricanes, at least 163 individuals died, leaving thousands homeless and wiped out crops and livestock.
Stronger storms, flash floods, and stronger gusts are becoming a result of climate change’s increased storm power.
It’s uncommon for such severe weather to occur simultaneously with other large hurricanes and thunderstorms in a small glass, but about 20 of those events occur annually in the Southeast Asian nation or its surrounding lakes.
Casinos DESERTED
The weather forecaster has sent its second-highest typhoon warning to various provinces that extend from Luzon’s eastern coast, where Man-yi is expected to make its next landfall, to the island’s western border, where it will leave.
In Dipaculao Municipality in Aurora state, about 2, 000 people were residing in disaster evacuation homes.
Some have stayed home to protect their property and cattle, or because they were wary of the warnings, said Geofry Parrocha, communications official of Dipaculao crisis company.
” Some of our people are truly hard-headed. They do not think us until the storms arrives”, Parrocha told AFP.
Before the storms, visitors left seaside resorts.
Soon before Man-yi was scheduled to make landfall in neighboring San Luis, Irene Padeo, ticket agent for the L’Sirene Boutique Resort in Baler city in Aurora, declared that “our services are deserted.”
” All of our outside goods have been brought home and packed.” We tied over all the relaxation”.
On its current trajectory, Man-yi may traverse north of Manila and push over the South China Sea on Monday.
The late summer storms year saw the arrival of Man-yi in the Philippines because most hurricanes form between July and October.
The Japan Meteorological Agency reported to AFP that this was the first time a storm had sprang into the Pacific valley since records began in 1951, when four winds were clustered together just before this quarter.