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<p>Rescuers in the northern Philippines picked up residents stranded by flooding and delivered supplies by boat Friday, as <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/weather-traffic/2025/7/25/emong-weakens-ahead-of-par-exit-will-continue-stirring-habagat-rains-1201">Typhoon Emong was downgraded to a tropical storm hours after making landfall.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/7/24/-walangpasok-class-suspensions-on-friday-july-25-1515">Schools remained closed</a> and electricity was down in swaths of the archipelago nation&#x27;s biggest island after days of monsoon rains that have <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/7/25/25-dead-due-to-tropical-cyclones-habagat-ndrrmc-0913">killed 25</a> and left eight missing across the country, according to the natural disaster agency.</p><p>In the west coast province of La Union, where Emong arrived in the early hours, a family of four was rescued after being trapped on the second floor of their wooden home.</p><p>&quot;They couldn&#x27;t leave their house because the flood was waist-deep and they have children,&quot; said a rescue official who asked not to be named as they were not authorised to speak to media.</p><p>&quot;Many had been calling us since early morning, but we were having challenges in responding because the rain and winds were so strong,&quot; they said, adding that a break in the downpour meant rescue operations were now in full stride.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/regions/2025/7/25/emong-unleashes-floods-landslides-in-northern-luzon-1136">Emong unleashes floods, landslides in northern Luzon</a></div><div><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fcoastguardph%2Fposts%2Fpfbid033sVQbosr8p5FgNbMTcwgHDt1SqSGNoNEPEgagEh8gr7pw7WYmUhLwFv9heJddPuQl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500" width="500" height="708" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> </div><p>In Bulacan province, just north of the capital Manila, AFP journalists saw entire villages submerged in waist-deep waters.</p><p>Lauro Sabino, 54, said he and his wife had evacuated their home in the morning after a frightening night of hard winds.</p><p>&quot;It was as if my roof was being blown off. It was creaking. The rain poured the entire night,&quot; he said, adding they would sleep at a local market until flooding subsided.</p><p>&quot;The same thing happens every time. There&#x27;s no solution,&quot; agreed Mary Rose Navia, 25, a housewife whose husband was unable to go to work on Friday.</p><p>&quot;The floodwaters are just getting deeper.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/regions/2025/7/25/highest-for-the-year-bulacan-high-tide-reaches-nearly-5-ft-worsens-flooding-1233">Highest for the year: Bulacan high tide reaches nearly 5 ft</a></div><div><iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U6ypK3fM9_k" title="13 bayan at lungsod sa Bulacan binaha dahil sa habagat, high tide | TV Patrol" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><p>President Ferdinand Marcos on Thursday explicitly tied the recent flooding to climate change, saying his country had to accept this was the &quot;new normal&quot;.</p><p>&quot;This is the way it&#x27;s going to be as far as we know for... many decades to come, so let&#x27;s just prepare,&quot; he said in a televised cabinet briefing.</p><p>The storm, which was weakening as it made its way north by northeast, was expected to be gone from the Philippines by Saturday morning.</p><div><br/></div><div><iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XSIZCqNykM8" title="#Emong kumikilos sa Northern Luzon, habagat patuloy na magpapaulan | ABS-CBN News" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>

<p>Rescuers in the northern Philippines picked up residents stranded by flooding and delivered supplies by boat Friday, as Typhoon Emong was downgraded to a tropical storm hours after making landfall.</p>

Rescuers in the northern Philippines picked up residents stranded by flooding and delivered supplies by boat Friday, as Typhoon Emong was downgraded to a tropical storm hours after making landfall.

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Boats bring food, safe passage for Philippine flood victims

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Published July 25, 2025 02:02 PM PHT

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