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Commuters brave floods along major road in Cainta, Rizal

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Paige Javier

ABS-CBN News

<p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">RIZAL — Individuals found ways to get past the knee-deep to waist-deep flooding on a major thoroughfare in Cainta, Rizal on Wednesday.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"> </div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">A resident along Imelda Avenue told ABS-CBN News that the water level began to rise as early as 6 a.m due to the continuous rains.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"> </div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Most of them said they had no choice but to get through Imelda Avenue to get to the Cainta junction.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"> </div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Christopher Surbano, a backhoe operator from San Mateo, said he waited along the thoroughfare for about four hours and was already late for work.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"> </div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">“Sa Sierra Valley. Magta-trabaho ako. Dapat kanina pa eh. Sobrang lakas ng ulan, baha pa,” he said.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">(I&#x27;m headed to Sierra Valley for work. I should have been there earlier but the rain was so strong and there is a flood)</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"> </div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Surbano said passing through Imelda Avenue is the only way to get to his workplace in Taytay.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"> </div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">“Nagko-commute ako. Eh, ngayon wala, hindi rin makadaan ngayon eh. Ngayon lang ako nakakita ng tubig na ganito,” he explained.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">(I usually commute but no vehicles can get through. I have not seen floods this high before) </p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/24/dpwh-21-nat-l-roads-in-ncr-closed-due-to-carina-1541">DPWH: 21 nat&#x27;l roads in NCR closed due to Carina</a></div><div> </div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Surbano was supposed to wait for one of the six-wheeler trucks offering free rides to pass by, but ended up going through the flood on foot.  </p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"> </div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Other pedestrians rushed to get on the six-wheeler trucks and  pickup trucks offering free rides.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"> </div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Some pedicab drivers charged around P100 to ferry people across the flood. </p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Meanwhile, residents in a nearby village braved waist-deep floods and to seek higher ground. </p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Some parked their cars outside the village gate to keep them from being submerged in the rising water.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"> </div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">The Cainta Municipal Disaster and Risk Reduction Management said search and rescue operations are ongoing for the 14-year old male who went missing on Tuesday after falling into a creek in Barangay Sto. Domingo.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"> </div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">According to former Cainta mayor Keith Nieto, about 142 families have taken shelter in the town&#x27;s evacuation centers.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><strong><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/IKFoxDSNKIc?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></strong><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div>

<p>The Cainta Municipal Disaster and Risk Reduction Management said search and rescue operations are ongoing for the 14-year old male who went missing on Tuesday after falling into a creek in Barangay Sto. Domingo.</p>

The Cainta Municipal Disaster and Risk Reduction Management said search and rescue operations are ongoing for the 14-year old male who went missing on Tuesday after falling into a creek in Barangay Sto. Domingo.