More than 300k displaced due to Typhoon Nina —NDRRMC

More than 300,000 people remained in hundreds of evacuation centers in four regions due to Typhoon Nina (international name Nock-Ten), the government's disaster response agency said Monday.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said that as of 8 a.m., a total of 77,560 families or 383,097 people were in at least 300 evacuation centers in Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Bicol and Eastern Visayas.

The NDRRMC said that these families were evacuated before Nina became a typhoon and hit the Luzon landmass.

It also reported that a total of 17,277 families or 72,869 people evacuated at the height of the typhoon. The agency said these people were either staying in evacuation centers or with their relatives located in safe areas in the same regions.

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), meanwhile, tweeted that the number of passengers stranded due to Typhoon Nina has gone down to 10,968 as of 8 a.m. from 12,019 at 4 a.m.

A total of 1,047 rolling cargoes, 37 vessels and six motor bancas have also been stranded in seaports.

The PCG also reported that ports in Allen, Northern Samar and Matnog, Sorsogon have resumed trips as the weather started to improve in these areas.

Since Sunday, the NDRRMC said a total of 83 areas in Mimaropa and Bicol regions have been experiencing power interruption or outage while seven power lines in the two regions and Calabarzon have been cut off for the same period.

“Mayroon tayong naitalang ilang areas nagkaroon ng problema sa supply ng kuryente. Itong sa CALABARZON, MIMAROPA, at Bicol Region ay pinatay muna ang supply ng kuryente ng ating National Grid Corporation of the Philippines bilang precautionary measure dahil inaasahan na may malakas na hangin na dala ang bagyo at hanggang sa kasalukuyan ay hindi pa nireresume ang pagbibigay ng supply ng kuryente,” NDRRMC spokesperson Romina Marasigan said during the press briefing.

She said some areas in Bicol Region also experienced communications problems.

“Sa mga may kamag-anak sa Bicol Region at may problema ang linya ng komunikasyon, hindi isolated ang ilan sa mga lugar. May ilang areas lang sa probinsiya ng Catanduanes na Globe lines lang ang gumagana,” Marasigan said.

She said they have yet to receive reports on casualties and cost of damage as the assessment was still ongoing as of Monday morning.

“Ang gagawin ng Office of Civil Defense-Bicol Region ay magkakaroon ngayon ng Rapid Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis at ‘yung mga teams natin ay currently na-deploy na para magkaroon ng initial assessment kung ano ang naging epekto ng bagyong Nina,” she said.

“So far hindi pa masabi na pinakanasalanta dahil hindi pa tapos ang pananalasa ng bagyong Nina sa ating bansa pero sa initial reports namin, nakita na ang Catanduanes at Camarines Sur kung saan unang-una nakaranas ng bagyo,” she added.

Marasigan said they received initial reports on military detachments damaged due to typhoon Nina but they are still verifying it. She said a hospital in Bicol also suffered minor damage.

Marasigan also said the main focus now is to provide assistance to familiies whose houses were destroyed by the typhoon.

“Karaniwan sa mga nasira talaga ay mga kabahayan. So iyon ang tinitignan ngayon at nagiging focus ng ating ahensiya na agarang makapagbigay ng tulong sa ating mga kababayan na ma-repair nila ang kani-kanilang bahay,” she said.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development and certain local government units have extended a total of P7.1 million in assistance to the provinces of Albay, Camarines Sur and Sorsogon.

Weather bureau PAGASA said in its 11 a.m. bulletin that the typhoon has continued to weakened as it again made landfall in Tingloy, Batangas before 10 a.m.

The typhoon was packing maximum sustained winds of 130 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 215 kph. It was moving west northwest at 20 kph.

Tropical cyclone warning signal number 3 was hoisted over Batangas, northern portions of Oriental and Occidental Mindoro including Lubang Islands.

Signal number 2 was hoisted over Metro Manila, Rizal, southern Quezon, Marinduque, Cavite, Laguna and the rest of Mindoro provinces while signal number 1 was raised over the rest of Quezon including Polillo Islands, Bulacan, Pampanga, southern Zambales, Romblon, Camarines Norte, Bataan and Calamian Group of Islands. —Xianne Arcangel and Amita Legaspi/ALG/KBK, GMA News