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| Courtesy of PPIO-AgSur |
Typhoon Pablo with an international name of BOPHA destroyed five (5) municipalities of Agusan del Sur leaving 16 dead and 11 injured as of 10 p.m. of December 6.
The municipalities of Rosario, Bunawan, Trento, Sta. Josefa and Veruela received the impact of the Typhoon Pablo that destroyed the infrastructures and agricultural lands of the said municipalities.
According to the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC), it reached 8,356 households were totally destroyed and over 6,211 were partially destroyed houses. Over 19,906,568 pesos costs of damage houses and 7,660,300 pesos costs of Agricultural lands such as rice fields, corn fields, coffee farms, lumbers and fruit lands were accounted.
Destroyed houses and trees can be seen along the highway of the municipality of Rosario. And the leaning utility poles made the people afraid to pass the Maharlika Highway.
Mr. Arean Amero, Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer (MDRRMO) of Bunawan, said that there were 6 injured reported and they had damage of 16,618,000 pesos in terms of their infrastructures and 5,580,842 pesos worth of damage on their agriculture.
The municipality of Trento had five (5) dead reported namely Elizabeth Zalueta, Cecilio Duarna, Pepito Cabusas, Jocelyn Navales and a 7-month old Baby Cabriadas. And the municipal hall of Trento was destroyed, too. Everything, including houses and other infrastructures were damaged.
And in the town of Sta. Josefa, there were three (3) casualties namely Lilia Flores, Guillermo Cataag and Jovena Cataag. And also all the houses and agricultural land were destroyed.
According to Mang Edgardo Macias, a resident of Sta. Josefa, on 5 a.m. when the wind started to blow and at any time, they were ready to evacuate. And around 6 a.m. they went to their neighbor to evacuate. They witnessed the destruction of their house by the two fruit trees, Santol and Marang.
“Gisulti-an nami nga mag-andam, pero wala mi nagdahom nga kusog kaayo ang hangin- first time namo ni nasinati,” he added, “ngayo lang mig hinabang para makatukod mig balay.”
While in Veruela, Ms. Elvira, Municipal Social Welfare and Development (MSWD) of Veruela, over 95% of whole Veruela were destroyed by Typhoon Pablo. And some barangays were still submerged in flood. Agricultural lands and infrastructures were totally damaged.
There were seven (7) casualties viz. Emma Quibol (daughter), Lolita Quibol (mother), Willy Libotlibot, Jeffrey Sabado, Mark Lloyd Lodiveo, Junry Pingol and Beloso Eway.
The survivors of the typhoon are knocking on the hearts of those fortunate people to donate or to give assistance to them especially in building new houses.
Until now, the affected municipalities don’t have electricity. The evacuees need assistance especially on medicine, water and food.
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