After having created distress during nearly one week in the northern part of Luzon this storm system is slowly moving westwards.
People have started to clean up their houses, but structural damages in roads, dams and houses will need months of work and millions of pesos.
PAGASA maintains Signal No 1 (30-60 km/h winds) for the following areas:
Ilocos Norte
Ilocos Sur
La Union
Western Pangasinan
There are still dangers coming from the dams in northern and central Luzon. PAGASA informs:
The Pantabangan Dam decreased its outflow from 700cms to 600cms as of 5AM today. The RWL of Pantabangan is 220.61 m AMSL and an inflow of 747 cms with 2 gates open and a total opening of 9.4 meters. All municipalities/cities in the target area of Pantabangan dam particularly in Rizal, Bongabon, Gen. Natividad, Palayan City, Cabanatuan City, and Sta. Rosa are advised to seek higher grounds.
The Magat dam decreased (???) its outflow from 1578 cms to 3400 cms due to significant inflow from the upper reaches of the watershed. The RWL increased from 192.22 m AMSL to 192.55 m AMSL with 6 gates open and total gate opening of 14 meters. The target area of Magat dam includes the municipalities of Ramon, San Mateo, Aurora, Cabatuan, Luna, Reina Mercedes, Burgos, Naguilian and Gamu in the province of Isabela.
The continues heavy rains over the upstream area during the past 12 hours warrranted for the increase in the outflow of both the Ambuklao and Binga by as much as 3452 cms. From 1:00AM to 5:00AM today, the outflow of San Roque Dam increased from 3156 cms to 5349 cms to maintain its RWL to 289.0 m AMSL (which is just 1 meter from the top of gate 290.0 m AMSL) with 6 gates open and a total opening of 27 meters. Widespread flooding had occured in the target municipalities of Pangasinan namely: San Manuel, San Nicolas, Tayug, Sta. Maria, Asingan, Villasis, Alcala, Bautista, Rosales and Bayambang. Flood levels will remain high within the next 24 hours.
All residents along the Agno river, Magat river and middle Cagayan river and upper Pampanga river are advised to evacuate and stay tuned to warnings/advisories from PAGASA. The PAGASA will continue to provide update on the monitored reservoirs until such time that all spillway operations are terminated.
Meanwhile, level of Anget Dam is 213.93 m AMSL and is forecast to open its spillway if significant inflow occurs. The target areas of Angat/Ipo Dams are the municipalities of Bulacan namely: Norzagaray, Angat, San Rafael, Bustos, Baliuag, Pulilan, Plaridal and Hagonoy. The spillways of both dams are closed.
And, as we hope, the last track of Parma (Pepeng)
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( 3 / 4 )One of the most active Beach Resorts of Camiguin Island, the Camiguin Action Geckos, has a new boat: The Lady Julija.
The new boat, built on the sandy beach of Agoho, Camiguin, will be introduced to the public tomorrow afternoon.
Test-runs have been done during this week. The young lady seems still to be a bit capricious, but with the know-how of the local ship builders, she will soon be tame and bring the Gecko divers to the best dive spots in the Philippines: Mantigue Island and the shoals around Camiguin.
This is the young, stormy lady during a test drive:
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( 4.3 / 3 )Parma (Pepeng) still pours rain over West Luzon.
Baguio City is isolated because of multiple landslides that block the roads. Help for the Babuyan and Batan Islands and Cagayan encounter logistics problems because of blocked roads.
Our friends in San Fernando, La Union have problems with electrical and Water supplies.
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( 0 / 0 )Parma (Pepeng) is still in the vicinity of Ilocos Sur or at
60 kms North Northwest of Baguio City.
It is slowly moving west with aximum sustained winds of 55 kph near center.
Signal No.1 (30-60 km/h winds) is maintained in:
Cagayan
Isabela
Ilocos Norte
Ilocos Sur
Apayao
Abra
Kalinga
Ifugao
Mountain Province
Benguet
La Union
Pangasinan
Nueva Viscaya
Quirino
Aurora
Nueva Ecija
Tarlac
Pampanga
Zambales
Bataan
Bulacan
Photo taken at 07:30 today from Mambajao, Camiguin.
During the last 3 days Parma (Pepeng) also brought bad weather to the south by amplification of the south-west monsoon.
In the southern Visayas and northern Mindanao most ferries had to stay in port.
But his morning a wonderful sunshine with stranges clouds welcomed us.
On above photo it seems as if Bohol had grown over night. But it is only a strange cloud layer.
You may observe the vacuum-cleaner effect of Parma (Pepeng) on our animated weather-map.
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( 0 / 0 )More and more people send their complaints to Silent Gardens.
This morning we got 2 complaints within a few hours:
First complaint:
Good Day!
This is a complain directed to a bachelor express conductor plying the Davao City-Tandag, Surigao del Sur route named Mr. Leo Abayon (Bus # 4742).
We were sending laboratory specimens to Davao City through bachelor buses by a waybill. For the past two tractions, Mr. Leo Abayon demanded handling fee for the said specimens on top of the waybill.
He even threatened our personnel Mr. Ariel Gumata that he will not accept the cargo unless a handling fee will be given to him.
He asserted that it is a COMPANY POLICY. A voice recording of the conversation was taken to support our complaint. We hope for a speedy response from you and from Bachelor Express.
Thank you so much! More Power!
Second complaint:
Good day.
I would like inform you that there were cabs (taxi) in metropolis alabang and sucat alabang near precint 3 that won't take you for a ride unless it in in there flat rate or required fare. for example from metroplois alabang to naia terminal we were ask to pay for 600 pesos if we wanted a ride.
Law implementation is a must.Please do make them follow rules.
I'll be hoping for your urgent respond.
We are not a law firm, but we have contacts. So we will forward all complaints to the responsible office or person.
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( 1 / 1 )Parma (Pepeng) is a strange storm.
Prisco Nilo, director of PAGASA said: "In my 26 years in PAGASA, I’ve never seen a storm like this, staying over land for so long".
Parma (Pepeng) again has brought heavy rainfalls in North and Central Luzon. In Baguio City the weather bureau recorded 641 mm of rainfall on Oct. 2-6, the period of Pepeng’s early onslaught. This is more than the 461 mm average monthly rainfall in October 2008, hence imminent flash flood and landslides may likely occur due to soil saturation.
Damage caused by Typhoon Parma (Pepeng) is pegged at PHP 300 million worth of infrastructure and crops in the Cordillera Region alone as the storm still hovers in the country's vicinity.
Based on Pagasa’s 5 p.m. weather bulletin, Public Storm Signal No. 1 remains hoisted in Batanes, Babuyan Island, Calayan Island, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Apayao, Abra, Kalinga, Mountain Province, Isabela, Ifugao, Nueva Vizcaya, northern Aurora and Benguet.
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( 3.3 / 4 )Tropical Depression PARMA (Pepeng) has maintained its strength as it remained stationary over North Luzon.
Wind speeds of 30-60km/h are expected in northern and eastern Luzon.
Friends in San Fernando, La Union report rainfall all over the day.
There is a risk that PARMA (Pepeng) "reloads the matrix". The center of the depression is going back on its track. Over the sea it may again gain strength.
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( 3 / 2 )Although downgraded, Tropical Storm PARMA (Pepeng) disturbs traffic in the Philippines. Even the southern parts of the country e.g. Bohol Sea, faced problems today.
The first ferry, a Super Shuttle Ferry, linking Camiguin with Bohol, had to return after some 12km because of the high waves. The second ferry, the PARAS Sea Cat made it to Jagna in Bohol, but could not return to Camiguin and Mindanao in the afternoon.
This photo had been shot at 4 pm on the Beach in Agoho, Camiguin
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( 2 / 1 )Tropical Storms and Typhoons create havoc when their strong winds and torrential rainfalls come over our Islands.
The heavy rains kill most people by floods and landslides.
But the strong winds make interrupt all supplies either by air or by sea.
Batanes, the Philippines' northernmost island province is crying for help, as food supply for its almost 16,000 residents started to dwindle when Typhoon PARMA (PEPENG) stopped airplanes and ships from delivering food and other basic goods.
There is a dangerous shortage of rice, biscuits, powdered and canned milk, infant formula, sugar, cooking oil, eggs, chickens and bread.
There is hope as winds are slowing down.
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( 3.3 / 12 )The Department of Tourism (DOT) expects eight million tourists to visit the Philippines’ top 16 destinations this year.
The forecast for this year was zero to two percent growth for foreign arrivals. DOT was even looking at negative (arrivals) as the worst-case scenario. Instead a 6.4 percent growth could be recorded in foreign arrivals in the major destinations in the first semester.
The top tourism destinations are:
Camarines Sur
Cebu
Boracay
Baguio
Davao
Puerto Galera
Bohol
Negros Occidental
Negros Oriental
Ilocos Norte
Masbate
Camarines Norte
Puerto Princesa
Legaspi
Catanduanes
Sorsogon.
The DOT is expecting more tourists to come now that there are signs of recovery in some of the Philippines’ top tourist markets like Europe, Japan and Korea.
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