Heavy Rains Expected As ‘Glenda’ Enters Ph

[Medic Mike]

CEBU CITY (Updated) -- Typhoon Glenda (Rammasun) hit land around 5:20 p.m. Tuesday over Sorsogon, said the weather bureau.

In its 5 p.m. weather bulletin, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Glenda was moving west northwest at 19 kilometers per hour (kph).

The typhoon, the seventh to enter the Philippines this year, is still packing maximum winds of 130 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 160 kph.

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At 4 p.m., the eye of Glenda was located at 60 kilometers east of Legazpi City in Albay.

Pagasa said the typhoon will cross the Bicol Region toward Southern Luzon. It is also expected to pass Metro Manila before noon Wednesday and in the vicinity of Bataan in the afternoon before it will move toward the West Philippine Sea.

By Thursday afternoon, Glenda will be at 370 kilometers west of Sinait, Ilocos Sur outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility.

As of 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, public storm warning signal number 3 remained hoisted over Catanduanes, Albay, Sorsogon, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Masbate, Quezon, including Polillo Islands, Marinduque, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Northern Samar, northern part of Samar province, and northern part of Eastern Samar.

Under signal number 2 are Southern Aurora, Cavite, Bulacan, Pampanga, Bataan, Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan, Tarlac, Zambales, Lubang Island, Oriental Mindoro, Romblon, Biliran, rest of Samar, rest of Eastern Samar, northern part of Leyte, and Metro Manila.

Signal number 1 was raised over Northern Aurora, Quirino, Nueva Vizcaya, Benguet, La Union, Occidental Mindoro, rest of Leyte, Southern Leyte, and Northern Cebu, including Cebu City, and Camotes Islands.

Pagasa warned residents in low-lying and mountainous areas under signals number 3, 2 and 1 against possible flashfloods and landslides.

Those living in coastal areas under signals number 3 and 2 were also alerted against storm surges of up to three meters.

Glenda will bring estimated rainfall amount of 7.5-20 millimeters per hour (moderate to intense) within its 500-kilometer diameter, said Pagasa.

Fishing boats and other small seacrafts were advised not to venture out into the Eastern seaboards of Luzon and Visayas.

Some 31,422 families were evacuated in Albay due to the effects of Typhoon Glenda, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Tuesday.

In its latest update, the DSWD said the 137,259 individuals who fled their homes in Albay City due to the heavy downpour brought by the typhoon are now staying in 64 evacuation centers in the said city.

The DSWD added that there were 880 families or 2,781 evacuees in Northern and Eastern Samar.

Meanwhile, 96 houses were destroyed by big waves brought by Typhoon Glenda. (Third Anne Peralta/Sunnex)

 

[Malcolm Graham]

Went to the Bureau of Immigration FB page and this was posted

ANNOUNCEMENT:

As per the Office of the President's announcement which was aired at DZMM, all government establishments at the National Capital Region, will have no office operations tomorrow (16 July 2014) due to Typhoon Glenda (Rammasun). Thank you!

[Jake]

Went to the Bureau of Immigration FB page and this was posted ANNOUNCEMENT: As per the Office of the President's announcement which was aired at DZMM, all government establishments at the National Capital Region, will have no office operations tomorrow (16 July 2014) due to Typhoon Glenda (Rammasun). Thank you!

Good thing you didn't actually go to Intramuros, Manila.  From Imus, the coastal road, Roxas Blvd and Intramuros

itself have been known to be submerged during flood conditions.  Hell, most of Metro Manila are built on reclamation

area just like Los Angeles.  Manila however were designed by city engineers who were too busy singing My Way.

 

You have seen the chaotic road anarchy due to poor design of flood control, traffic and emergency egress to high

ground.  Some areas like Cavite is just a few feet above sea level.  Perhaps you next family vehicle should be a

banca boat......he, he.

[fred]

 

Went to the Bureau of Immigration FB page and this was posted ANNOUNCEMENT: As per the Office of the President's announcement which was aired at DZMM, all government establishments at the National Capital Region, will have no office operations tomorrow (16 July 2014) due to Typhoon Glenda (Rammasun). Thank you!

Good thing you didn't actually go to Intramuros, Manila.  From Imus, the coastal road, Roxas Blvd and Intramuros

itself have been known to be submerged during flood conditions.  Hell, most of Metro Manila are built on reclamation

area just like Los Angeles.  Manila however were designed by city engineers who were too busy singing My Way.

 

You have seen the chaotic road anarchy due to poor design of flood control, traffic and emergency egress to high

ground.  Some areas like Cavite is just a few feet above sea level.  Perhaps you next family vehicle should be a

banca boat......he, he.

 

 

 

I have never really seen a big flood problem in Imus in the past.. The creek usually fills up and we usually get 2 inches of water on our sub div road when places like Bacoor are 3/4 ft deep.

Guess we got lucky with location.

[Papa Carl]

Hi Guys,

 

Just checking in to make sure everyone here (Philippines) is OK. We started getting the wind and rain late last night, by 7am this morning it was bad enough that the school where I teach cancelled classes.

Just past noon, the power went out for the 8th time, but this time did not come back on until 9pm!

 

Good thing I stocked up on backup lights, fans etc. when we moved into the new house, we really needed it, as this was the first time in a very long time that the power was out for so long.

 

Wind got a bit fierce around 4pm, and was accompanied as usual by the deluge of rain, in fits and starts, but all in all no real damage and it appears no deaths.

 

Sounds like things were quite tame over in Subic, which I am glad to hear, they have had their fair share of "natural" disasters and flooding in the past 12 months.

 

I haven't heard from friends in Legazpi City all day and I hear they got hit quite bad.

 

Hope you all are OK.

 

Papa Carl

[Medic Mike]

MANILA -- Typhoon "Glenda" (Rammasun) has killed six people after battering provinces in Luzon including Metro Manila, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Wednesday.

Among the fatalities were Lourdes Lim, 29, of Northern Samar, Reynaldo Hernandez, 49, of Plaridel, Bulacan and relatives Nanez Artificio, Arlene Cabaleda and Adrian Artificio, who were killed by a fallen concrete wall in Lucena City.

Lucena is the main city in Quezon, the province that is expected to have dealt the most damage from the storm, said NDRRMC Executive Director Alexander Pama in a press briefing.

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Thousands of families were also evacuated to schools, village halls and basketball courts, mostly in Bicol region.

The typhoon skirted densely populated Metro Manila but its strong winds still toppled trees and power lines.

(Video by Al Padilla/Sunnex)

Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla said 60 to 70 percent of electricity customers or around 4.5 million people in Luzon were still in the dark after Glenda devastated several transmission lines in the island.

Petilla said that "no estimated time yet as to when power will be restored, especially in hardest hit areas like Calabarzon region."

He added that generation plants in Calabarzon, Mimaropa and Bicol regions are unable to deliver power because the Southern Luzon Grid remains down.

"It's difficult to (set) target when you haven't measured the damage. So first thing is to measure (the extent made by Typhoon Glenda)," Petilla said.

Petilla added that the Department of Energy (DOE), National Electrification Agency (NEA) and the country's largest power distributor Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will try to put back power as quickly as possible.

"We are currently assessing the extent of the damages in our distribution facilities including poles, transformers, wires and sub-transmission lines," Meralco spokesperson Joe Zaldarriaga said.

He noted that around 86 percent of Meralco customers are still without electricity.

Separately, Meralco said on Twitter that it is assessing the extent of damage in its distribution facilities including poles, transformers, wires and sub-transmission lines. It is also doing round-the-clock clearing operations to ensure safety during actual restoration of power.

"We appeal for your understanding as we continue our restoration efforts," Meralco said.

Meanwhile, Petilla advised businesses establishments and hospitals to stock up on fuel for generators.

Glenda is expected to leave the Philippine Area of Responsibility on Thursday afternoon, according to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa). (Virgil Lopez/Third Anne Peralta/John Carlo Cahinhinan/Sunnex)

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[OnMyWay]

Here in Subic Bay Freeport Zone, in our neighborhood, we lost power for 12+ hours, getting it back at about 1115 pm.  Kudos to Subic Enerzone for a good job restoring it in our area, because there was a lot of power line damage.  I thought it would be a lot longer.

 

We have huge trees in our area and quite a few big ones came down.  A really large one came down across the main road near our house and took out several power lines.  A very large limb fell from the big tree in our front yard but did not hit anything.  A neighbor down the street was not so lucky and a couple of big limbs crushed his carport.

 

I have not ventured very far to see the rest of the area.  Hopefully it is not too bad.

 

The storm was mainly a wind event here.  The rain only got real heavy a few times.  The front edge of the storm had strong winds and the trailing edge was fairly tame.  Manila and Subic were relatively lucky due to the way the storm turned.  Damage and loss of life could have been much worse.

[Malcolm Graham]

http://www.mb.com.ph/glenda-causes-death-of-51-p46-m-infrastructure-damage/

‘Glenda’ causes death of 51, P46-M infrastructure damage
by Aaron B. Recuenco
July 17, 2014
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Authorities began to have a full grasp of the extent of damage caused by typhoon “Glenda” as damage reports from the affected provinces started to pile up at the main operations center at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City.

The death toll has ballooned to 51 with at least three people reported missing.

CALABARZON (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) region holds the highest number of casualties with 33 people, 11 of them in Laguna, eight of them in Quezon and six in Batangas.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), however, confirmed only 40 fatalities, 22 of them in CALABARZON and 18 in other regions.

The 33 fatality figure, on the other hand, is based on the report of the CALABARZON Office of Civil Defense which is apparently not yet reconciled with that of the NDRRMC.

Both Rizal and Marinduque have three fatalities each while one each in Oriental and Occidental Mindoro.

Bicol region, which first suffered the fury of the weather disturbance, only reported four fatalities, two each in Camarines Sur and Sorsogon.

Two people also died each in Northern Samar and Pampanga and one each in Bulacan, and Zambales . In Metro Manila, two people were reported dead, one each in Pasig and Valenzuela cities.

Based on the NDRRMC records, most of the fatalities died after being hit by uprooted trees, fallen posts and other objects toppled by the strong winds of “Glenda”.

The rest either died from drowning or suffered heart attack.

Based on its latest update, a total of 192,131 families or a little over 1 million people were affected by the weather disturbance, wherein 530,000 people are in the evacuation center.

Bicol region has the most number of evacuees with 77,654 families or 423,538 followed by CALABARZON with 9,188 families or 42,795 persons and Metro Manila with 5,016 families or 24,238 persons.

Some of the evacuees may have to stay in the evacuation centers for long since some 7,000 houses were totally destroyed while 19,257 others were partially damaged.

A total of 15 roads and four bridges, including the Calumpang Bridge in Batangas City which collapsed, were rendered impassable due to damage and flooding.

But the NDRRMC reported that most of the affected roads are beginning to be accessible as of Thursday morning.

As to power supply, Bicol region remains in a total blackout while most part of Cavite, Batangas, Laguna, and Quezon have no power supply.

Based on the latest assessment, a total of P45.5 million were reported damaged in infrastructure in Bataan and Nueva Ecija alone while P668.2 million in agriculture in Bicol region alone.

Damage assessment is still ongoing in Southern Tagalog, Metro Manila and some parts of Central Luzon.

 

I was in Pasay from Sunday so I don't know what its like in Imus but there is still a lot of areas of Cavite without power.  Meralco has introduced 3 hrs rotating brownouts in Manila till Saturday.  Globe and Smart are patchy at best.  Things you would have thought would blow away stayed while substantial things collapsed. Grace's brothers house which is a wooden house built on the roof of the main house was jumping about but was still there at the end.  The Mercury drug sign complete with all fixings parted company with the building and there is a lot of steel in one of those.  Roxas  Blvd lost a lot of trees but the road was cleared fairly quickly and was running at its normal speed when I went up to Immigration this morning.  

[Americano]

Here in Carcar City, Cebu Province where my wife and I live we didn't notice any high winds and we actually got less rain during Glenda than we were getting the 2 weeks before Glenda arrived. Its just been normal weather here. Well, you know some of us have Guardian Angels watching over us  :)

 

I hope everyone is all right especially those in the direct path of the Typhoon.  Everyone living in the areas where it floods a few times each year should buy a small boat with a couple of paddles. The boat will keep you out of the polluted water with sewage in it.

 

Get ready for the next one, looks like its coming soon.

 

Why would any country build their Capitol City in an area that gets an average of 20 storms per year and especially in a low area that floods every time there is heavy rain?   Was it brilliance or stupidity?   Well, maybe it was brilliance because now they can ask for foreign aide every year.

[jon1]

Just finally getting back to normal here. In Binictican, we had no power for 36 hours. A large section of the main feeder line was taken out (400m of line right up to Brent International School on the main thoroughfare (Binictican Dr) (img 4147)). We had a lot of trees down in the subdivision (almost every street had limbs or trees down). Easy St was a zigzag of dodging trees to get out around the power line down in front of Brent. Maybe all of this damage will get SBMA to relook their policy on trees being allowed to be cut down?? The wind damage was just from a 2-3 hour period of intermittent gusts. The Freeport sure dodged a bullet this time. Things could have been much worse should the storm had taken the original path (the Eye was supposed to pass directly over Manila then Subic Bay). 

 

There are still lines down between Binictican and Cubi and the Freeport has their hands full cleaning up the branches and roads. The road sweeping crews were out yesterday in the rain clearing small debris and most of the streets in Binictican are clean now (from residents and road crews). 

 

The next big thing will be disposal of all of the down limbs. Most are of the softwood variety that have little (if any) value. 

 

Another storm is forming just off Guam and is currently forecast to head for Taiwan and the Ryukyus. I hope it stays on that course or even more Northeasterly.

Edited July 18, 2014 by jon1