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By: Selma

Selma — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:52:42 +0000

With the weather still clear Friday, millions of Filipinos boarded buses heading to their home provinces for this weekend's All Saints' Day, when people visit cemeteries paying respects to dead relatives. Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro expressed fear that floods and traffic congestion may trap visitors at graveyards, where people traditionally spend a day or even a night, but few heeded his call to scrap their commemoration of the Roman Catholic holiday. The northern Philippines is still struggling to recover from back-to-back storms that killed 929 in floods and landslides. Tropical Storm Ketsana on Sept. 26 caused the worst flooding in 40 years in and around Manila, followed by Typhoon Parma that unleashed mudslides in the northern mountains Oct. 3.

By: Selma

Selma — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:52:25 +0000

Typhoon Lupit last week skirted the northeast and veered toward Japan. In some provinces, floodwaters raged through cemeteries, breaking up tombs and sweeping away caskets and bodies. About 122,000 people remain in government-run evacuation centers, and many communities in Manila suburbs are still under water, with residents moving on makeshift rafts and foot bridges. In Arenda village, where knee-deep waters still lingered along the shore of Laguna Lake, southeast of Manila, Hilaria Abiam was getting ready to leave her house at a moment's notice. "If the floodwater threatens to rise again then I will surely evacuate because I am really frightened," she said.

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