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Monday, August 13, 2018

Why was there so much flooding this weekend, when there was no typhoon?

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Rizal Philippines
August 13, 2018

From Rappler Weather alert



There was so much flooding in Luzon over the weekend:  Saturday and Sunday with floodwaters raging "lagpas tao"   The strange thing was there was no typhoon. And  the volume of rainfall was just 1/2 of Ondoy. in 2009(but that was for 4 days period 500 mm of rainfall)  The rainfall last Saturday was 270 mm, half of the  entire rainfall for August (500 mm). Falling in just one day.  Much rainfall fell North of Manila, less on the south. There was one wedding at Hagonoy Bulacan. held in a flooded church.



Why again was there so much flooding?  The flooding caused the evacuation of more than 20,000 because of the  deep floodwater. Several died of drowning

1.  Many  of the areas have been rain soaked all ready because of previous deluge?

2.  Too much silting in some rivers;

3.   Garbage disposed off in rivers and waterways clogging the same. Hence the flood.  How can we mitigate floods from too much rainfall in the future?  Can we or we are just victims of nature

Video ng baha sa Marikina;  umapaw Marikina river