“But we are one with the people of the Bicol region, who bore the brunt of the storm.” “Thanks be to God we were largely spared,” said Francisco Domagoso, Manila’s mayor. Rivers overflowed, tree branches flew and wet concrete-like mudflows poured down the slopes of a volcano. At least 16 people were confirmed to have died from the typhoon in the Bicol region southeast of the capital, according to the regional Office of Civil Defense, with three people reported missing. Roughly 1.5 million families in the city live near railroad tracks, garbage dumps and fetid waterways, their flimsy shacks and shantytowns defenseless against every wind gust and storm surge.īut by day’s end, Goni, known locally as Rolly, appeared to have largely bypassed the capital, with no fatalities reported there. Manila, the low-lying, crowded capital, looked to be squarely in the typhoon’s path. When Typhoon Goni made landfall in the disaster-plagued nation on Sunday morning, with sustained winds of 135 miles per hour, it ranked as the most powerful storm to hit the Southeast Asian nation in years. BANGKOK - The Philippines was braced for the worst.
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