REMAI ALEJADO
Provincial Press Bureau
Governor Aurora Cerilles led the distribution of grocery packs to the displaced victims in four towns of Salug Valley that was hit by a flashflood last Oct. 28.
Some 1,485 families from the total 41 affected villages received Cerilles’s food assistance of five kilo of rice and five each for sardines and noodles.
These families came from Dumingag, Mahayag, Molave, and Ramon Magsaysay, whose ricefarms, vegetations, livestocks and houses were either destroyed or washed away by flood.
This is not enough, the governor tells them as she explained that the province’s Calamity Fund should have been used for such purpose but the same is reserved for big disasters.
“Nagkinahanglan kita og ulan pero atong ihangad sa kahitas-an nga dili usab pasobrahan hangtud magbaha og kusog unya makadaut sa atong panginabuhi ug kabtangan,” was Cerilles’ words in easing the victims’ worries.
Conchita San Diego of the PSWD said more typhoons will yet hit the country in the coming weeks and most probably will do an encore in the affected towns.
However, Cerilles hopes such a forecast, if it will take place, would be less devastating than the one happening now.
Early in October, flashflood hit Tambulig after the Usugan River overflowed and inundated villages near its riverbanks.
Some 1,485 families from the total 41 affected villages received Cerilles’s food assistance of five kilo of rice and five each for sardines and noodles.
These families came from Dumingag, Mahayag, Molave, and Ramon Magsaysay, whose ricefarms, vegetations, livestocks and houses were either destroyed or washed away by flood.
This is not enough, the governor tells them as she explained that the province’s Calamity Fund should have been used for such purpose but the same is reserved for big disasters.
“Nagkinahanglan kita og ulan pero atong ihangad sa kahitas-an nga dili usab pasobrahan hangtud magbaha og kusog unya makadaut sa atong panginabuhi ug kabtangan,” was Cerilles’ words in easing the victims’ worries.
Conchita San Diego of the PSWD said more typhoons will yet hit the country in the coming weeks and most probably will do an encore in the affected towns.
However, Cerilles hopes such a forecast, if it will take place, would be less devastating than the one happening now.
Early in October, flashflood hit Tambulig after the Usugan River overflowed and inundated villages near its riverbanks.