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TROPICAL Storm Quinta brought heavy to moderate rains even before it made landfall, causing flooding and landslides in two Visayas provinces and forcing the preventive evacuation of families in the Bicol region and southern Tagalog.
National Council for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management spokesperson Mark Timbal quoted Region 8 officials as reporting that flooding and landslides affected roads and bridges in the cities Naval, Biliran and Calbayog and Catbalogan, both in Samar.
The two airports in Calbayog and in Catarman, Northern Samar, were also not operating while at least 668 passengers, 276 rolling cargo and nine vessels were stranded in various ports in the Visayas, including Allen’s seaport, Northern Samar.
Timbal said maintenance personnel from local and national government agencies are also working to repair and clear affected roads and bridges.
Despite the weather conditions in Region 8, the NDRRMC has yet to report any evacuations.
In southern Tagalog, all sea voyages in the region, including those coming from the busy Batangas port, have been canceled by the Philippine Coast Guard due to Quinta, passengers, ships and cargo stranded.
Citing preliminary reports from the Bicol region, where Quinta was expected to make landfall Sunday night, Timbal said that at least 532 families or 1,789 people have been preemptively evacuated from the cities of Guinobatan in Albay and Canaman in Camarines Sur.
