Philippines: Manila Flooded by Monsoon

In Manila, where he fell in 24'' s equivalent of fifteen days of rainfall at that time, floods have cut off roads and schools, the stock market, and government offices were virtually deserted Tuesday. The army was called in as reinforcements to ensure evacuation and relief to people in refugee floors or roofs.

"At least 50% of Metro Manila is flooded. Heavy rains are expected in the next 24 hours. Flooding will get worse," he told AFP Jean Navarez of the Meteorological Agency of the Philippines. At least 20,000 people were forced from their homes, and the poorest living in the vicinity of sewers and rivers in flood in the slums of the metropolis of 15 million people are most vulnerable.

Where the streets submerged by the flood reached the spot height of a man, children offered their support through makeshift rafts made with planks of wood and banana trunks. The rescue was slowed by locally strong currents that endanger the rescue teams, said Cora Agulan, the National Council for the management and prevention of natural disasters.

Twenty typhoons hit the Philippines every year during the season (summer and fall). The last, in September 2011, and Nesat Nalgae, have killed at least 101 people, and tens of thousands more were unable to return to their homes due to flooding, said Sunday the autorités. En 2009 Tropical storm Ketsana, who had drowned much of Manila under water, had 464 victims.