#raining in manila? BUMABAGYO

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we don’t have twisters but we do have typhoons and honey it is typhoon season and im treading thru flood, strong wind and heavy rain 😭🙏 stormchasers wont survive here unless they got jetskies i fear

have not watched the OG twister movie and honestly didn’t plan to watch the new remake however tiktok has convinced me after showing me masc cowboy katy o brian and suddenly????? i wanna watch it

save me cowboy butch… save me…

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Gordon eyes better NIA supervision to prevent massive flooding

#PHnews: Gordon eyes better NIA supervision to prevent massive flooding

MANILA – With the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) under fire for the severe flooding in Isabela and Cagayan when Typhoon Ulysses swamped the provinces last week, Senator Richard Gordon said the agency should be properly supervised to avoid a repeat of the catastrophic incident.

“We cannot solve everything through legislation, all the laws are there. What is important is that NIA is properly supervised,” he said when asked how he could address the issue through legislation.

Gordon advised NIA to practice the 4Ps – Predict, Plan, Prepare and Practice like they do in the Philippine Red Cross where he is chairman and CE -- to mitigate the effect of disasters and more lives and property will be saved.

“They should practice the 4Ps. In the Red Cross we have the 4Ps, you have to Predict, predict the danger, Plan what you will need. Learn it, then you have to Prepare and you Practice...When you Predict, alam mong bumabagyo, palapit na ang bagyo, dapat may protocols. Dapat pag palapit na ang bagyo, magpakawala ka na, hindi yung hihintayin mo on the last day (when a typhoon is coming, you need protocols. Once a typhoon is near, release (the water), you don't need to wait on the last day,” he said.

The PRC head also supported the call to include dam releasing in the alerts issued by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, adding that in the Red Cross, they regularly monitor the water level in the different dams so they could warn residents to evacuate if they are nearing spilling level.

“Ako sa Red Cross, naka-monitor kung ano ang status ng mga dams. Halimbawa sa Tullahan River, pinag-eevacuate namin mga tao, sinasabi namin malapit ng mag-overflow (The Red Cross monitors the status of the dams. For example, the Tullahan River, we ask people to evacuate, we tell them that it is about to overflow),” he said.

The release of water from the dams reportedly worsened flooding situations in Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, the Cordillera Administrative Region, and Metro Manila.

In Cagayan and Isabela, the release of water from Magat Dam, one of the biggest dams in Asia, at the height of the storm allegedly triggered massive flooding in Cagayan Valley and left at least nine dead.

Meanwhile, NIA chief Ricardo Visaya said the spillway gates of Magat Dam had to be opened amid the heavy rains from Typhoon Ulysses to prevent the dam from breaking and causing a bigger catastrophe that would have affected millions of people. (PR)

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References:

* Philippine News Agency. "Gordon eyes better NIA supervision to prevent massive flooding." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1122557 (accessed November 22, 2020 at 12:38AM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "Gordon eyes better NIA supervision to prevent massive flooding." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1122557 (archived).

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Duterte’s health ‘as good as anyone of his age’: Palace

#PHnews: Duterte’s health ‘as good as anyone of his age’: Palace

MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte’s health is “as good as anyone of his age”, Malacañang said Tuesday quashing speculations that the President’s temporary absence in the initial government briefings on its response to Super Typhoon Rolly was due to any health condition.

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Duterte’s decision to visit residents in Guinobatan, Albay is proof that he is able to perform his duties as the country’s highest elected official.

“He is as good as anyone of his age ‘no. Nakita ninyo naman iyan, siguro naman hindi siya makakapunta sa Guinobatan kung hindi mabuti po ang kalusugan ng ating Presidente (You see, perhaps he won’t be able to go to Guinobatan if he wasn’t in good health),” he said in a Palace press briefing.

Asked if Duterte’s photographs of not wearing his face mask were accidental, Roque did not directly answer the question but emphasized the importance of his presence there.

Roque said the President insisted to visit Guinobatan despite knowing the risk of being exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).

“Kung natanggal man iyong mask niya, siyempre po eh iyong danger niyon ay na kay Presidente. Pero hindi po niya natiis ang mga Bicolano, pinuntahan po niya at siyempre he exposed himself to the threat of Covid-19 pero gayunpaman siya po ay Presidente at nais niyang ipakita (If his mask was removed, of course he would be in danger. But he could not resist Bicolanos, he visited them and exposed himself to the threat of Covid-19 but nevertheless the President wants to show them) that government is there to assist them,” he said.

In a Cabinet meeting aired over PTV-4 on Monday, Duterte himself explained his absence in the first two briefings on government’s response to the typhoon at the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), saying he was only “waiting for the typhoon to pass”.

Duterte also said he spent the weekend in Davao City before the All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day.

Roque said Duterte might have been “irritated” by critics asking “Nasaan ang Pangulo (Where is the President)?”, since concerned government agencies were already on red alert to provide relief and response for families affected by the typhoon.

“Now, siguro nairita si Presidente. Ano bang gusto ng mga kritiko niya na lalabas siya sa kalye habang bumabagyo? That’s pointless po dahil nagawa na po ni Presidente ang dapat gawin, hinanda na po ang lahat ng departamento at ahensiya ng gobyerno (Perhaps the President was irritated. What do critics want, that he go outside while it’s raining? That’s pointless because the President did what he needed to go, all departments and agencies of government were readied),” he said.

He said there was “nothing wrong” with looking for the President on the onslaught of the typhoon.

“I guess there’s nothing wrong with that pero alam ninyo naman po, may malice na pagtanong iyan dahil iyan iyong mga kritiko na kahit anong gawin ni Presidente, hindi po, walang mabuting nakikita sa ginagawa ni Presidente. Bahala na po sila (but you know, there’s malice in the way they ask because critics, no matter what the President does, they don’t see anything good),” he said.

Citing an October Pulse Asia survey result, Roque stood by Duterte’s high performance and trust rating, both at 91 percent while only 5 percent of Filipinos disapproved of his performance.

“Anyway, they (critics) comprised 5 percent of the population and we will convert them still, huwag po kayong mag-alala (don’t worry),” he said. (PNA)

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References:

* Philippine News Agency. "Duterte’s health ‘as good as anyone of his age’: Palace." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1120621 (accessed November 04, 2020 at 01:58AM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "Duterte’s health ‘as good as anyone of his age’: Palace." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1120621 (archived).