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==Damages in Ilocos Norte due to Mina reaches P312.9 million== | |||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r01&id=51892 | |||
*By: Cristina Arzadon | |||
*''September 01, 2011'' | |||
Damages caused by typhoon Mina have climbed to P312.9 million including lost crops and destroyed roads, bridges and public buildings, the Provincial Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Council said on Wednesday. | |||
As of Wednesday, agricultural crops such as rice, corn, high value commercial crops and fishery amounted to more than P40.2 million. Damages to infrastructure consisting of roads, bridges, irrigation facilities and school buildings have reached more than P270.2 million. | |||
Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos presented the latest damage assessment during a press briefing this afternoon. Also present during the briefing were Congressman Rodolfo Fariñas, Laoag Mayor Michael Fariñas, Batac Mayor Jeffrey Nalupta and other provincial officials. | |||
Marcos said the provincial government continues to deliver relief goods to affected families and works on rehabilitating damaged public facilities using the province’s calamity funds. | |||
The province has been under a state of calamity since Sunday due to widespread flooding and several are areas still submerged due to heavy and continuous rains caused by typhoon Mina. | |||
Marcos said the effect of storm Mina should serve as a wake up call to the public. “We have to admit that the environment has been overly burdened and abused by our acts. We need to rebuild not just damaged materials but rehabilitate the environment as well,” she said. | |||
In Laoag, Mayor Farinas said damaged crops reached more than P10 million while roads and bridges including school buildings were pegged at more than P61.3 million. | |||
He said flooding in villages near the Laoag river was aggravated by the absence of irrigation canal which should have slowed down rain waters that overflowed from the Sabo Dam. | |||
For his part, Mayor Nalupta said Batac suffered minimal flooding in downtown Batac but damages to crops amounted to P10.7 million while public roads and bridges incurred some P5.6 million in damages. | |||
Congressman Fariñas said he would work on the immediate release of rehabilitation funds for Ilocos Norte, on top of soliciting support from his colleagues in the House of Representatives. | |||
==20,000 families in Ilocos affected by 'Mina'== | ==20,000 families in Ilocos affected by 'Mina'== | ||
*Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/08/30/11/20000-families-ilocos-affected-mina | *Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/08/30/11/20000-families-ilocos-affected-mina | ||