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Pepito leaves damaged roads, crops in Quirino

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1731896593417467314968_1031835575654506_1847986666243920224_n (1).jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="white-space:pre-wrap">Officers help clear roads in Quirino after typhoon Pepito. Philippine National Police/Facebook </span></span></span></span></div><div><span id="isPasted" style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MANILA — Authorities in Quirino province on Monday cleared uprooted trees and debris as they began assessing the damage left by typhoon Pepito over the weekend. </span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Hindi kami makapasok from national highway to provincial road, lalo sa mga interior, so inuuna muna namin yung clearing para maka-access po kami,” said the province’s disaster office head Jesus Leal. </span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pepito on Sunday was still a super typhoon when it made its second landfall in neighboring Aurora province, but was downgraded to a typhoon category as it traversed the mountainous island.</span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Salamat po sa Diyos at kami po ay nakapaligid ng Sierra Madre, proteksyon po namin sa Quirino yung Sierra Madre,” Leal told TeleRadyo Serbisyo. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/11/17/heavy-rains-still-possible-as-pepito-moves-away-from-ph-526">Heavy rains still possible as Pepito moves away from Luzon</a></span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Some 1,161 families or about 3.820 people fled to evacuation centers in Quirino, she said. </span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At least 13 roads were flooded while some bridges were damaged, the officer added. </span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Yung iba dito, meron pa doon sa Nika [na pinsala]. Hindi pa naaayos sa Nika, then here comes Pepito, so lalong na-aggravate,” Leal said. </span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">She said Pepito also left heavy agricultural damage. </span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Malaki po sa agriculture [ang pinsala], lalo na yung mga saging namin, lalong nawala. Imbes na mayroon kang kaunting nakatayo after Nika, lalo namang nawala na, natuluyan sa Pepito. Yun ang isang malaking pangkabuhayan natin sa Quirino,” Leal said. </span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“May kaunti pa kaming nasirang palay, buti maagang nakapag-harvest ang mga farmers natin.” </span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bzhuaWczCSY?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></span><br/></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Naka-ready naman po yung ating LGU for support,” Leal said. </span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pepito was the sixth storm in the past month to batter the archipelago nation. At least 163 people died in the previous storms, which left thousands homeless and wiped out crops and livestock.</span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/11/14/nasa-philippines-overlapping-storms-unusual-653">NASA: Philippines’ overlapping cyclones ‘unusual’ </a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About 20 big storms and typhoons hit the Philippines or its surrounding waters each year, killing scores of people, but it is rare for multiple such weather events to take place in a small window.</span></div><div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pepito hit the Philippines late in the typhoon season -- most cyclones develop between July and October.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><strong>— With a report from Agence France-Presse </strong></span></div>

<p>Authorities in Quirino province on Monday cleared uprooted trees and debris as they began assessing the damage left by typhoon Pepito over the weekend.</p>

Authorities in Quirino province on Monday cleared uprooted trees and debris as they began assessing the damage left by typhoon Pepito over the weekend.