A tropical storm east of the Philippines was drawing seasonal rain clouds into the country on Saturday and threatened more flooding and landslides over the next three days as provinces devastated by Typhoon EgayPH were still trying to recover.
The tropical storm was forecast to become a typhoon on Sunday. It was centered around 1,205 kilometers east of Central Luzon over the Philippine Sea on Saturday afternoon and moving northward with maximum sustained winds of 75 km per hour and gusts of up to 90 kph.
A satellite image of the storm on Pagasa’s website showed color-coded rainbands over the Ilocos, Calabarzon, Central Luzon, Mimaropa, and Western Visayas regions, indicating various intensities of rainfall over those areas. With maximum winds of 185 kph and gusts of up to 250 kph, Egay caused the biggest havoc in northern Luzon despite not making landfall on the country’s major island last week.
“I don’t like this. I could be bringing these to you,” Marcos said in jest, saying he wanted to make a visit to Abra during festivals.In Laoag, the capital of his home province of Ilocos Norte, Marcos ordered officials to bring in more water filtration equipment to the disaster-stricken areas to ensure that those displaced had clean drinking water.
He said one filtration truck on its way from Metro Manila could produce 24,000 liters of water a day, Nepomuceno said.Marcos said safe water systems should be prioritized in areas hit by a disaster ”because it looks like it is going to be happening more often than we hope.” By midafternoon, the President was in Tuguegarao, the capital of Cagayan, where he flew over for an aerial inspection of the city and the rest of the province to see the typhoon damage.
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