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From Dr Master's Wunder Blog : Weather Underground
My daughter's other parents were supposed to be in the PI this week, and last I heard they were still going despite my suggestions on their rushed plans, travel during typhoon season for a couple of dessert dwellers who are clueless to tropical storms, and both of them recovering from recent hospital stays. Hope they postponed or are okay there. Two more TDs are headed that direction, currently at 145 and 155 longitudes...
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Tropical Storm Ketsana dumped prodigious amounts of rain on the Philippine Islands Saturday, triggering flooding that killed at least 106 people and left 280,000 people homeless. The flooding was particularly bad in the capital of Manilla, where the 16.7 inches of rain that fell in just 12 hours set a record for the heaviest 1-day rainfall ever recorded in the city (previous record: 13.2 inches in 24 hours, set in June 1967). The flooding from Ketsana was the worst in at least 42 years in Manilla, and the streets of the entire city became submerged in knee to waist deep or higher flood waters. Local news video showed dramatic footage of flood victims being swept down a suburban river on a pile of debris. Ketsana is currently over the South China Sea, and is expected to intensify into a Category 1 typhoon before hitting Vietnam on Tuesday.
My daughter's other parents were supposed to be in the PI this week, and last I heard they were still going despite my suggestions on their rushed plans, travel during typhoon season for a couple of dessert dwellers who are clueless to tropical storms, and both of them recovering from recent hospital stays. Hope they postponed or are okay there. Two more TDs are headed that direction, currently at 145 and 155 longitudes...
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