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'Lahat naubos': Typhoon hit-Albay needs food, housing aid

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/news/11/01/20201101-bicol-rolly.jpg"/><figcaption>Floods reached the roof of a house in Barangay Busay in Daraga, Albay due to Typhoon Rolly. Nov. 1, 2020. <em>Photo courtesy of AJ Miraflor</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA (<strong>2nd UPDATE</strong>) - The province of Albay needs food and housing assistance after 2 consecutive typhoons hit the province, Governor Al Bichara said Monday.</p><p>Rolly, the world&#x27;s strongest storm so far this year and a super typhoon at its peak, left at least 10 people dead in Bicol region, according to the Office of Civil Defense Sunday. A week before, Typhoon Quinta also inundated large swaths of the region.<br/> </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/01/20/typhoon-rolly-leaves-at-least-10-dead-more-than-390000-displaced">Typhoon Rolly leaves at least 10 dead, more than 390,000 displaced</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/26/20/typhoon-quinta-forces-thousands-to-flee-in-southern-luzon">Typhoon Quinta forces tens of thousands to flee in southern Luzon</a></li></ul><p>In Albay, 2 fatalities were confirmed in Guinobatan town, 1 in Daraga, 1 in Polangui and 1 in Malinao, Bichara said. </p><p>Guinobatan town has 3 fatalities and 3 missing persons, its mayor Ann Yap Ongjoco told ABS-CBN&#x27;s Teleradyo in a separate interview.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/02/20/3-still-missing-in-guinobatan-albay-after-rolly-onslaught">3 still missing in Guinobatan, Albay after Rolly onslaught</a></li></ul><p>Lahar submerged around 150 houses and killed residents in the said town, the two officials said.</p><p>&quot;&#x27;Di namin ine-expect &#x27;yung lugar kasi di naman tinataamaan ng lahar &#x27;yun. Nagoverflow &#x27;yung lahar dahil malaki &#x27;yung deposit sa slope ng Mayon at s&#x27;yempre binugbog ng bagyo. Umapaw &#x27;yung kanal at nag-iba ang direksyon,&quot; Bichara said.</p><p>(We did not expect the area to be hit by lahar. The lahar overflowed because there was a big deposit in the slope of Mayon and was pummeled by the storm. The canal overflowed and changed direction.)</p><p>Aside from housing assistance, the province needs food as its funds had already been depleted by the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p>&quot;Kailangan natin dito pagkain. Wala na silang iha-harvest ngayon. &#x27;Yung palay. Dalawang bagyo sunuran. Mga vegetables sira na rin,&quot; Bichara said.</p><p>(We need food here. Farmers have nothing to harvest, not even rice. Two storms came after each other. Vegetable crops were also destroyed.)</p><p>&quot;Lahat ng LGU (local government) gumastos sa COVID tapos may Quinta pa. Di tatagal, mauubusan kami rito. Kailangan talaga tulong galing sa national government.&quot;</p><p>(All LGUs used their funds for COVID then Typhoon Quinta came. It will not last long, we will run out of funds. We really need help from national government.)</p><div><strong> ‘WALANG NAISALBA’</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4syISK2f6KM?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>Roel Duque, a resident of Guinobatan, said his family was unable to save anything except the clothes they wore.</p><p>&quot;Halos lahat ng bahay naubos. Gawa po ng baha, galing po sa Mayon gawa nitong quarry. Lahat po naubos, wala man kaming naisalbang gamit. Yung natira sa&#x27;min yung suot lang namin,&quot; he said.</p><p>(The flood from Mayon due to quarrying wiped out nearly all houses. We were not able to save our belongings, only the clothes we wore.)</p><p>&quot;Wala kaming matuluyan, wala kaming pagkain.&quot;</p><p>(We have nowhere to go, we have no food.)</p><p>Duque said he got separated from his family during Rolly&#x27;s onslaught and was later reunited.</p><p>&quot;Nakaakyat ako sa puno ng mangga, doon lang ako nasalba... Yung kapitbahay namin yung pamilya nawala. &#x27;Yung kapitbahay namin siya lang natira, buti nga naisalba pa namin eh,&quot; he said.</p><p>(I was able to climb a mango tree, which saved me. Our neighbor&#x27;s family is missing, we were fortunate enough to save him.)</p><p>Search and rescue operations are underway and the local government will provide food to affected residents, Ongjoco said.</p><p>Rolly&#x27;s strong winds and intense rains also knocked down &quot;almost 80 percent&quot; of electrical posts in the first district, where it made its second landfall on Sunday morning, Bichara said.</p><p>&quot;Wala, matatagalan ito, bagsak ang mga poste ng kuryente,&quot; he said.</p><p>(There&#x27;s none, it will take long to restore power because electrical posts are down.)<br/> </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/11/01/20/typhoon-rolly-knocks-out-power-in-bicol-parts-of-calabarzon">Typhoon Rolly knocks out power in Bicol, parts of Calabarzon</a></li></ul><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ksrd4ckX6s4?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><div><strong>STILL INACCESSIBLE</strong></div><p>Dr. Cedric Daep, chief of Albay Public Safety and Emergency and Management Office, said some areas in the province’s 3rd district such as Polangui remain inaccessible due to widespread flooding.</p><p>“It&#x27;s not passable even by heavy vehicles, military trucks,” he told ANC’s “Matters of Fact,” adding rescue operation and delivery of relief goods have been hampered.</p><p>Based also on their initial inspection, about 50 percent of houses in Albay’s 1st district was damaged while Rolly cut a swathe in the agriculture sector, Daep said. </p><p>Before the super typhoon battered Albay, the provincial government has evacuated more than 200,000 people.</p><p>Daep feared the toll could have been higher, particularly in areas buried by volcanic mud flows, had people not fled to safety.</p><p>“If not because of evacuation, I think we would have thousands or hundreds of people died in areas of Mayon because of lahar,” he said.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2JG6KFRLp3Q?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>The province of Albay needs food and housing assistance after two consecutive typhoons hit the province, governor Al Bichara said Monday.</p>

The province of Albay needs food and housing assistance after two consecutive typhoons hit the province, governor Al Bichara said Monday.