VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Clips of Laos, Thailand flooding WRONGLY used to show ‘Cagayan’ during typhoon Ulysses
All four clips featured in the 46-second video show different instances of flooding in Laos and Thailand.
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: No new low pressure areas seen in PAR; viral photo is MANIPULATED
No LPAs or storms have been observed forming near the country or in the PAR, at least for the next few days, according to latest forecasts.
From Ulysses’ debris, Marikina residents move on
Ulysses (international name: Vamco) did not pack enough wind power to be categorized by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration as a supertyphoon, but its arrival spelled disaster for Metro Manila all the same.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: These photos are from Super Typhoon Yolanda, NOT Rolly
They were captured by Reuters photographer Erik de Castro on Nov. 10, 2013.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Report on ‘massive typhoon’ hitting PH is FROM 2015
It's Typhoon Lando from 2015.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Tropical Storm Hanna falsely depicted as a Super Typhoon
Spotted’s advisory is fake.
Storm drill to save Malabon residents
[metaslider id=29720] By JANE DASAL AS soon as the siren rang, they ran. Armed with “bakwit”or evacuee bags containing food, water and emergency supplies, residents of Barangay Potrero in Malabon City set out from their homes and lined up for barangay trucks to take them to evacuation centers as their shelter during typhoons.
A city in ruins
Text and photos by LUIS LIWANAG ORMOC City—The city of Ormoc in Leyte was just a speck in the horizon but to 38-year-old Marie Jean Decio, it was a place she could see and smell, a place that would bring her closer to her six children. Marie Jean traveled almost four hours by fast craft
Hunger rises after ‘Ondoy,’ ‘Pepeng’
HUNGER among Filipinos has risen nationwide, from 17.5 percent in September to 18.9 percent in October, after the onslaught of storm “Ondoy” and typhoon “Pepeng,” according to a special survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations. The October figure represents about 3.5 million families, with the increase recorded mainly in Luzon outside Metro Manila, according
UP Student Council leads relief, reconstruction efforts at Diliman
The University of the Philippines Student Council recently led relief efforts to aid some 600 families in the Diliman campus hit by Tropical Storm "Ondoy."
