1,236 Death of Tropical storm Washi or Sendong and many missing in Iligan City & Cagayan de oro

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December 25, 2011 (5:15 PM) UPDATE: 1,236 confirmed dead and half million displaced..

Flash floods triggered by a tropical storm in the southern Philippines have killed more than 440 people and left many more missing, officials say.

Many of the victims were asleep when it struck Mindanao island, hitting the cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro.

Tens of thousands of people have fled to higher ground, the authorities say.

Benito Ramos, head of the national disaster rescue agency, said reports were still coming in and the casualty figures could rise.

Mr Ramos said the floodwaters had risen alarmingly fast overnight as people slept.

"Massive flooding had been reported over the region, especially in Iligan City and Cagayan de Oro City," he said

Rivers burst their banks after 25mm of rain fell in 24 hours.

The Philippine National Red Cross Secretary General Gwen Pang said at least 430 people had been killed.

She said 215 people had been killed in Cagayan de Oro and 144 in Iligan.

Large areas were left without power and some domestic flights were cancelled as winds of up to 90 km/h (55mph) swept across the island.

A landslide killed at least five people in the east of the island, the national disaster agency said.

A military spokesman, Colonel Leopoldo Galon, said an entire army division - some 10,000 soldiers - was involved in the rescue efforts around Cagayan de Oro.

Forecasters said the eye of Tropical Storm Washi had passed close to Dipolog City, west of Iligan City, early on Saturday and it was now heading out into the Sulu Sea.
Search for bodies

Floods had swamped a quarter of Iligan and at least 10 villages on its outskirts, said the city's mayor, Lawrence Cruz.

"It's the worst flood in the history of our city," Mr Cruz told GMA television. "It happened so fast, at a time when people were fast asleep."

The coast guard and other rescuers were scouring the waters off the coastal city for survivors or bodies, he added.

GMA television broadcast dramatic footage of a family escaping their flood-hit home by climbing through a window.

Rescue workers were pictured helping survivors to safety in chest-deep floodwater.

Three people also drowned in Polanco town in Zamboanga del Norte province, said provincial disaster officer Dennis Tenorio. He said high winds had toppled trees.

The storm is set to hit the western island of Palawan later on Saturday, after crossing the Sulu Sea with winds of up to 75 km/h, according to state weather forecasters.

The Philippines are struck by about 20 major storms every year but most of them take a more northerly track, hitting Luzon island.

Mr Ramos said Washi's toll may have been so high because Mindanao residents are unaccustomed to catching the full force of such storms.

He said officials had given four days of warnings that the storm was approaching but many people had chosen not to evacuate their homes.

Typhoons Nesat and Nalgae battered the country within days of each other in September, leaving more than 100 people dead. Both storms struck Luzon.

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[Hikottv]

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[Hikottv]

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[Hikottv]

IF you don’t have God then what you have? Satan? The more you violates God and Blame God the more you would be the next subject to the next calamity. Are you ready to Die? Only Jesus Christ the Son of the Almighty Father have the power to save you in this kind of calamity.

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[Hikottv]

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[Hikottv]

Dear viewers!

DO not Blame God but Blame Satan

Do you think that you are Godly enough for you to blame God? You might don’t even believe in God for you to talk about GOD. Satan is the incharge of calamities and testing God’s people and not GOD.

I understand your feelings as victim but I am here to intervene as the hatred and anger in your heart is overshadowed by wrong beliefs.

I noticed that many are blaming God but they never even remember God. They don't even pray even once a year :(

[JLEUNG77X7]

Jesus Christ the Son of God said,

19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good

but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the

commandments.

1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:

repent ye, and believe the gospel.

Matthew

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John

[JLEUNG77X7]

They are directed by carnal men who run

the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Mother Theresa-type organizations

all three which are fronts for the Catholic Church where much of the

funds end up in the Vatican vaults; and the United Crusade or any of

these U.N.-funded programs. All these programs get a lot of support to

help the poor people across this Earth, but little of these funds get

to the poor in need....

[JLEUNG77X7]

We have a lot of persons seemingly doing good works across this Earth

but their works are not being directed by God or His Son, our Lord

Jesus Christ by His Spirit.

[Bagatan63]

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[Bagatan63]

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[Bagatan63]

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