Classes and work in government and private offices in many parts of the Ilocos and Cagayan Valley regions remained suspended on Monday as Typhoon BettyPH dumped heavy rains and brought strong winds in areas along its path.
Local disaster risk reduction management offices affected by the typhoon have yet to assess the damage in their localities but about 2,859 families, or 11,264 people, from 55 villages in the entire Cagayan Valley region were affected by the typhoon, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council .More than 5,000 residents in the Cagayan Valley region were preemptively evacuated, while close to 4,000 individuals were displaced, the NDRRMC said in its report on Tuesday.
In Santa Ana town in Cagayan province, an old warehouse at Port Irene collapsed on Monday afternoon due to the strong winds that slammed into the province’s coastlines as Betty continued to enhance the southwest monsoon, or “habagat.”
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