Missing Pepeng Victims Recovered in Tublay and Kapangan
Contributed by: Glo A. Tuazon
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Tublay, Benguet. The body of one of the two missing typhoon victims in Tublay was finally recovered yesterday October 19, 2009 by members of the Army units coming from Camp Allen, Baguio City and the many other volunteers and local officials. He was identified as Jervy Boyayao, from the Garcia Farms in Sto. Nino, Ambassador, Tublay. Julieta Garcia Boyayao, his mother related the day before recovery that their house was the first one to be taken by the slide and her family gone with it. With a big part of the mountain coming down and the debris of houses and other structures going with it, it became very difficult and perilous to recover all the bodies in a hurried pace no matter how hard the volunteers worked. It took seven days for the body of Jervy to finally be recovered. Mrs. Boyayao has the volunteers to thank, that finally she can now bury her son and put him to rest. That puts the casualty statistics in Tublay down to only one other person missing.
Forwarded by: Christine M. Oliquiano, Member, Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council Mountain Province through Byd Bawayan.
Old folks say the destruction and loss of lives brought about by typhoon Pepeng that breezed through the province last October 3 to 10 is the most devastating in recent years.
Reports consolidated by the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council puts the death toll at 42 with two still missing and six others injured. At least 29 houses were totally damaged and 85 partially damaged. Twenty other houses are considered threatened.
Contributed by: Glo A. Tuazon
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The land is tilted and the soil is loose from the various excavations, caused by the slides and the people digging up the victims underneath the rubbles. Everything was in disarray and probably will stay that way for a long time. The look on eveyones’s face is grim, as grim as the future that for now seemed a long distance away, the vision covered by the hulking mass of disturbed earth.
Contributed by: Glo A. Tuazon
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My name is Glo. I am a journalist. Right now I write not because I am one but because in the comfort of my room with the rain pounding on the panes I know some people outside are trying to scramble for higher grounds. And Im somehow comfortable with only the tiny water globules dripping from the ceiling, tick tocking in an amplified, thunderous clap on a pail below it.
Benguet became the very first provincial government to be established in the Philippines, a year earlier than the inauguration of the civil government of the Philippines, when it was established by the Philippine Commission on November 23, 1900 through Act No. 49 with Baguio as its Capital.
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ammo da.........congratulation! additional knowledge...
09/09 03:33
saud
eid mubarak!
09/09 03:33
saud
nice...
08/09 21:56
naks
Wet weew thanks for the info... nakaadalak met... saan lang nga ni 1234
08/09 16:14
hmmm
1234 The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) was created by virtue of Executive Order No. 220 issued and signed by former President Corazon C. Aquino on July 15, 1987. Furthermore, Administrative Order No. 36 was issued for the creation of CAR Offices and corollarily the Department of Tourism – CAR came into being on July 1, 1989.
08/09 00:42
1234
when was the date DEpartmetn of Tourism-CAR was estbalished?
04/09 03:31
loi
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02/09 03:32
cordillera
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01/09 01:36
saud
good morning cordillera! happy baguio day...
30/08 20:07
folk
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Rico
Hi May alam po kayo CAR folk stories?? kailangan ko lang kasi sa report.. meron ako nahanap Hudhud Hi Aliguyon, kaso di ko alam kung tama.. thanks~
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