DAVAO CITY — Almost 2,000 residents affected by landslides due to tropical storm Agaton (Megi) from the ten (10) barangays of Baybay, Southern Leyte now cry for help from food to reconstruction of their wrecked houses/
Charry Ann Natividad who survived the flashfloods with her four-month old baby said they were inside the house when the mudslide hit their village “It was so sudden but I cannot remember how we survived. I just kept Praying when the flash waters pulled us from our houses, I did not know two we survived, I closed my eyes and hold by baby tight,” she said in vernacular.
While Marlon, who lost her mother while his father still missing during the flash floods recalled “Natulog ako,gipukaw ko sa akong mama nga nagbaha, naanod ko sa lapuk, tapos naningkamot ko nga mabuhi ( I was asleep, my mother woke me up it was flooding, I swayed by mud and I struggled to be alive,).
Natividad and Marlon are now confined at the Immaculate Conception Hospital in Baybay along with over a hundred residents who were either injured or sustained bruises during to the rampaging water a drift woods..
Austine Pertimos Abalors, a member of Baybay’s Singles for Christ uploaded the video to seek help from netizens.
Abalors said the affected residents need everyone’s support from milk to food and materials for the construction of the hosues destroed by Agatin.
The city government of Baybay identified the affected barangays as: Can-ipa, Mailhi, Bunga, Gacat, Kantagnos, Bubon, Imelda, Makinhas, Maypatag and Villa Solidaridad.-EZC
