“…(C)oordination between concerned national agencies and local government units done to ensure immediate response and efficient delivery of relief services to the people affected by Karding.”
— Vice President Sara Z. Duterte
By EDD K. USMAN | Twitter: @edd1819 | Instagram: @bluestar0910 | SDN — Science and Digital News
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(SDN) — Mindanao native Vice President Sara Z. Duterte has assured the Marcos administration’s being “on top of the situation” concerning the impact of Typhoon Karding in the country.
Luzon, the biggest of the three main islands of the Philippine archipelago has once again suffered the brunt of another typhoon that killed six people and destroying or damaging infrastructures and crops.
Typhoon Karding (international name Noru) slammed through Luzon on Sunday and Monday leaving yet another trail of woe and desperation among thousands of people affected.
Weathermen of the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Service Administration (DOST-PAGASA) described “Karding” as the strongest yet to hit the country this year. In previous years strongest of the typhoons visiting the Philippines usually came in the latter part of the year.
The best (or worst) example was Super Typhoon Yolanda which barreled through Central Philippines on November 8, 2013, killing more than 6,000 people and hundreds missing. Those missing could have drowned, or dragged onto the sea by a receding devasting floods produced by a huge storm surge in Tacloban City, Eastern Visayas, that Yolanda created.
Duterte on Monday, September 16, 2022, assured that the Marcos administration “is on top of the situation”, with government agencies in collaborative mode.
“The administration of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. is on top of the situation — with coordination between concerned national agencies and local government units done to ensure immediate response and efficient delivery of relief services to the people affected by Karding,” said the lady Vice President, also the current secretary of the Department of Education (DepEd).
The Philippines is hit by more or less 20 typhoons every year, destroying and damaging infrastructures, including people’s houses made of light materials, and crops with billions of pesos wasted. Not to say lives.
“Karding” killed five rescuers in San Miguel, Bulacan, after a concrete wall crashed on their banca, a person died on Polillo Islands from a landslide.
Six other people were missing, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said in news reports.
Duterte said the people affected by the typhoon are in her thoughts and prayers.
“May I also offer my deepest condolences to the families of those who died during the onslaught of the typhoon,” the Vice President said in a statement reaching SDN — Science and Digital News. (✓)
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