On the 3rd of January 2009, Cagayan de Oro's New Year was met with tragedy as tropical depression "Auring" devastated the city with flash floods. This has shocked thousands of Kagay-anons as this has never happened in our beloved city before.
The areas of Macasandig and Carmen have our neighbors evacuated. They need all the help they can get - their homes are either filled with waist-to-head level of water or are totally destroyed. Food may be scarce since nobody was prepared for this. PLEASE HELP IN ANY WAY.
-UPDATES-
On January 11, 2009, another flood has ravaged CDO. This time, the areas of NHA, RER, Kauswagan, Iponan, Bulua, Canitoan, Lapasan, Macasandig, and neighboring towns Alubijid, Opol and cities of El Salvador, Iligan, Gingoog are affected. The floods caused structural damages on bridges and roads and houses; landslides; and lives.
This is the CDO Damage Impact Map taken from the recent floods in the city by the XU Engineering Resource Center (headed by Engr. Dexter Lo).
The REGIONAL DISASTER COORDINATING COUNCIL of Region 10 issued this Progressive Report as of January 12, 2009, 07:00 PM.
Joan Jamisolamin of KKP-SIO/ RSO wrote:
On the rains, floods and assistance to flood victimsThe calamities that Cagayan de Oro suffered from two floods that hit the city within a week from last January 3 to January 11, 2009 are far from over. On the night of Jan. 13, Tuesday, more rain poured in the city and in neighboring towns in Bukidnon, causing theCDO and Iponan rivers to overflow and flood waters to rise again. As of January 14, 2009, in Cagayan de Oro, the number of barangays hit rose to 44, with about 15,000 affected families.Other areas, affected are 13 barangays in Gingoog City; 4 barangays in Oroquieta City; and one barangay in Iligan City, and 15 municipalities of Misamis Oriental. Landslides also occurred in the upland barangays of Taglimao, Pigsag-an, Tuburan and Tumpagon, in San Simon, Iponan, Lapasan, Gusa, Balubal, Camaman-an and in Macanhan, Carmen, in the city of CDO.Xavier University, through the Kristohanong Katilingban sa Pagpakabana—Social Involvement Office (KKP-SIO), is responding with relief operations. Cash and goods donations are most welcome. Displaced families are in need of food items, rice, beddings and blankets, clothes and slippers for toddlers and adults, baby diapers, male and female underwear both for children and adult, bath and bar soaps, can opener, utensils for cooking.Those who would like to help can send donations to the KKP-SIO, 1/f Aggie Building, Xavier University. Telephone number: (088) 858-3116 local 3210 and 3215. Deposit to: Xavier University, Account Number 933-101-3363, BPI. Please inform KKP-SIO of any deposit made, to enable monitoring.
Pictures and Videos:
- 01/12/09 Photos of Opol by CagayanDeOroCity.info
- 01/11/09 Photos of Osmena by CagayanDeOroCity.info
- 01/03/09 Photos of Cagayan River by Jungle Jil
- 01/03/09 Photos of Carmen by puretuts
- 01/03/09 Photos of Carmen by CagayanDeOroCity.info
- 01/03/09 Photos of Marcos Bridge by Rob
- 01/03/09 Photos of Tibasak by Aubrey Ng
- 01/11/09 Video of Limketkai Mall by Ladysneo
- 01/03/09 Video of Cagayan River by hughes3525
- 01/03/09 Video of Carmen by wendellhollanes
- 01/03/09 Video of Carmen Bridge by TolitsBana
- 01/03/09 Video of Marcos Bridge by NetNet Camomot
PAGASA constantly updates its website: http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/
Interestingly, there is a real-time weather satellite image that can be accessed to all: http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/wb/sat_images/satpic.jpg
News about the flash floods:
- 01/15/09 from Inquirer.net
- 01/14/09 from GMANews.TV
- 01/14/09 from Inquirer.net
- 01/13/09 from GMANews.TV
- 01/12/09 from Inquirer.net
- 01/12/09 from GMANews.TV
- 01/12/09 from Phil. News Agency
- 01/12/09 from Phil. News Agency
- 01/04/09 from Inquirer.net
- 01/03/09 from Inquirer.net
8 comments:
fritz`, thanks much for posting this so more people can work with us-- this is all our fight!
i'm saddened with this. have a similar post..
http://livecdo.blogspot.com/2009/01/floodblack-nazarenemore-floodcdo-is.html
Nobody else has done a better compilation of everything we need to know and see. Very good job, ding.
ahmm.. fritz, just be pls post a NOTE that the recent map we had earlier (for whole CDO) is NOT YET final! ..we still have to do a bit of validation as well as to collect more data to complete it! ..thanks tho` for sharing info around, =)
To Ate: Thanks Te, although I merely posted stuff that people have worked on. In a way, this is also my way of saying thank you to the volunteers who put so much effort for information and relief dissemination.
To Sir Dex: OK Sir, I updated the post regarding the map (I totally forgot that this is still not final).
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