Natuurramp Filipijnen & Vietnam: Al minstens 300 doden.

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Philippine storm leaves 106 dead and missing
By JIM GOMEZ (AP) – 4 hours ago

MANILA, Philippines — Many Filipino villagers managed to save only the clothes on their backs but began to rebuild Sunday as the flood waters receded from a tropical storm that set off the worst flooding in the Philippine capital in 42 years and left about 80 dead.

Army troops, police and civilian volunteers plucked dead bodies from muddy flood waters and rescued drenched survivors from rooftops after Tropical Storm Ketsana tore through the northern Philippines a day earlier, leaving at least 106 people dead and missing.

Some residents began to clean up as the flood waters receded. Still, many parts of the capital remained flooded. A brief period of sunshine showed the extent of the devastation in many neighborhoods — destroyed houses, overturned vehicles, and roads covered in debris and mud.

Ketsana dumped more than a month's worth of rain in just 12 hours, causing the government to declare a "state of calamity" in metropolitan Manila and 25 storm-hit provinces. The declaration allowed officials to use emergency funds for relief and rescue.

The rains swamped entire towns and set off landslides that have left at least 83 people dead and 23 others missing, Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said. Garbage-choked drains and waterways, along with high tide, compounded the flooding, officials said.

Governor Joselito Mendoza of Bulacan province, north of the capital, said it was tragic that "people drowned in their own houses" as the storm raged.

"We're back to zero," said Ronald Manlangit, a resident of Marikina city, a suburb of the capital, Manila. Floodwaters engulfed the ground floor of his home and drowned his TV set and other prized belongings. Still, he expressed relief that he managed to move his children to the second floor.

"Suddenly, all of our belongings were floating," the 30-year-old said. "If the water rose farther, all of us in the neighborhood would have been killed."

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo toured the devastated areas and prodded villagers to move on. She said the storm and the flooding were "an extreme event" that "strained our response capabilities to the limit but ultimately did not break us."

TV footage shot from a military helicopter showed drenched survivors still marooned on top of half-submerged passenger buses and rooftops in suburban Manila Sunday. Some dangerously clung to high-voltage power lines while others plodded through waist-high waters.

In Marikina, a rescuer gingerly lifted the mud-covered body of a child from a boat. An Associated Press photographer saw rescuers carry away four other bodies, including that of a woman found in a church in a flooded neighborhood.

Authorities deployed rescue teams on boats to save survivors.

More than 330,000 people were affected by storm, including some 59,000 people who were brought to about 100 schools, churches and other evacuation shelters, officials said. Troops, police and volunteers have so far been able to rescue more than 5,100 people, Teodoro said.

The 16.7 inches (42.4 centimeters) of rain that swamped metropolitan Manila in just 12 hours on Saturday exceeded the 15.4-inch (39.2-centimeter) average for all of September, chief government weather forecaster Nathaniel Cruz said. He said the rainfall also broke the previous record of 13.2 inches (33.4 centimeters), which fell in a 24-hour period in June 1967.

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Op maandag 28 september 2009 12:52 schreef SicSicSics het volgende:
Gelukkig slaan ze zichzelf regelmatig aan het kruis anders was de toorn Gods natuurlijk nog veel groter geweest!

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Op maandag 28 september 2009 13:06 schreef SilkSpectre het volgende:
Oh die zitten meer in het Noorden.

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Op maandag 28 september 2009 16:50 schreef SilkSpectre het volgende:
Wanneer komen die andere stormen aan? En hoe heftig zijn ze?

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Op maandag 28 september 2009 16:58 schreef Jumparound het volgende:
ik zag dat ie met cat 2 aan land komt maar dan snel afzwakt... of wordt ie alleen maar sterker?

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Op maandag 28 september 2009 17:04 schreef Jumparound het volgende:

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Die horen al een week dat er een storm hun kant op komt?

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Op dinsdag 29 september 2009 00:23 schreef El_Matador het volgende:

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Ken jij ze?
Maal jij erom?

Ik vind medeleven veinzen met mensen die je niet kent, erg immoreel.

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23 dead as Typhoon Ketsana strikes Vietnam

ANOI, Vietnam -- Twenty-three people are dead in central Vietnam from Typhoon Ketsana.

Disaster officials have reported deaths in six provinces, including three in Quang Nam, where the storm made landfall around 2 p.m. It packed winds of up to 144 kilometers per hour (90 mph).

Disaster official Nguyen Van Vy said nine people died in Kon Tum province in the Central Highlands as the storm moved toward Laos.

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HOI AN, Vietnam (Reuters) - Millions of people were battling on Thursday to cope with the aftermath of a typhoon that cut a destructive path through parts of Southeast Asia, killing 400, as a stronger storm emerged off the Philippines.

Government reports said 101 people had died in Vietnam and 18 were missing after typhoon Ketsana swept through the country late on Tuesday, affecting about 1.4 million people and damaging or submerging more than 350,000 houses.

The typhoon left 11 dead in Cambodia, while the toll in the Philippines, where Ketsana struck last weekend, rose to 277 on Thursday.

A new storm more powerful than Ketsana gained strength and was moving east toward the Philippines on Thursday, headed for the northern part of Luzon island, forecasters said.

Typhoon Parma, with winds of 150 km per hour (100 mph) at the center, could hit the country on Saturday and the east coast has been placed under Storm Signal 1, the lowest warning.

Initial damage from Ketsana was estimated at $168 million in Vietnam and $101 million for the Philippines, the world's top rice importer, where 2.5 million people were affected by flooding, with 700,000 sheltering in evacuation centers.

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Op donderdag 1 oktober 2009 15:08 schreef breaky het volgende:
Ik ben blij dat er Laos beschermd van orkanen en dat soort shit.

Helaas voor de Filippijnen zitten ze juist op de verkeerde plek. Veel orkanen en veel aardbevingen

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Op vrijdag 2 oktober 2009 11:22 schreef superworm het volgende:
Vietnam 101 doden, da's maar 30.000 keer zo weinig als tijdens de Vietnam-oorlog!