CEBU CITY—Irish Piscos from Consolacion town could barely recall how she and her family survived Typhoon “Tino.” Their house was submerged in floodwaters on the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 4, in Consolacion town in Cebu province, forcing them to climb onto the roof and plead for help. She said she still cries whenever she remembers...
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Fear, isolation test resolve of residents in Albay town
LIBON, Albay—Delia Sario Elcano, 68, plodded through mud and past fallen power lines, barbed wires, slippery stones, and streams that were not there before. She had to take an unfamiliar path in temporarily abandoned residential lots because the usual route was covered with soil and rubble from a landslide. It was noon of Oct. 24...
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Landslides in Leyte: Why the threat persists
BAYBAY CITY—Virginia Queza remembers sharply the Day of the Landslides’, for that was when she lost her husband, house and almost everything else she had. “I kept shouting for help while we were deeply covered with mud, surrounded by dead bodies. My husband was still alive. But all my pleas were ignored,” Queza, 60, recalled,...
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Landslides in Leyte: Pain, grief stifle hope to rebuild lives
BAYBAY CITY, LEYTE—Almost every passing day, Rolando Tagnipez lights a candle before an image of his son on a made-to-order tarp installed in his house. The ritual reminds him of his loved one whose whereabouts he has surrendered to nature’s will. “They have not found the body of my son, together with those of his...