Philippines Typhoon Nesat harms Rp1, 6 Trillion

The death toll from typhoon hit Nesat and Nalgae in the Philippines rose to 59 people. The country also had to face losses of billions of pesos due to natural disasters such streak.

Quoted from CNN, Monday, October 3, 2011, losses from the storm are estimated at 8 billion pesos (Rp1, 6 trillion). The biggest losses contributed by the province of Isabela and Cagayan which is the Filipino farmers barn.


several cities in the province of Bulacan and Pampanga on Luzon island is still submerged in chest-high flooding adults. The cities most severely affected by typhoon is Calumpit, many residents in this city who are forced to survive on the roofs of houses.

Meanwhile, hundreds of other families still survive in the evacuation center even though floods have started receding. Reportedly, as many as 43 thousand homes flooded by the typhoon Nesat. Some dikes in Pampanga province also collapsed due to the brunt of water. This situation is exacerbated by the arrival of typhoon Nalgae.

Typhoon Nesat currently headed toward the mainland. Reportedly, the typhoon in China has caused several rivers to overflow and flood. Thousands of homes and thousands of hectares of agricultural land in Hainan Province were reported under water. Two million people had been evacuated.