FLOOD CRISIS DEEPENS

Flood Crisis Deepers

ANGRY VICTIMS SCRAMBLE FOR FOOD-Frustration has begun to boil or over .Flood victims, battling each other, swamped workers distributing food and emergency supplies as the government struggled to cope with more than half million people dislocated by the worst flooding in decades in Metro Manila and surrounding areas. Batail appaeled to the people not to disrupt the distribution. “We understand their desire to get relief goods but we hope that they also allow us to distribute where they should be allocated…

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The evacues were supplied with clear bedding and matress, used clothes, and regular supply of meals and bottled water, a far cry from the dire conditions, in evacuation centers, where they slept on cardboard boxes and jostled for bags of relief goods.”We had fried chicken for dinner and breakfast. Here, the grace comes to us,” Jessica Regoro, 38, a mother of four young girls, said in an interview.

As floodwaters engulfed the first floor og thier house in Tatalon, they climbed to the second floor and stayed there. But at mightfull, a fire brooke out in the neighborhod, forcing them to climb to the rooftop and escaped by hopping onto the rooftop of thier neighboor’s houses.