General call to Chris in Northern Luzon

[Denis-NFA]

chris

Just getting pictures down here on typhoon Lawrence.

Hope you and yours are okay.

Denis

[chris]

We are fine. Salamat po.

We lost all contact for 4 days as our CP batteries ran down. We had no electricity. Obviously no Internet.

I did a 70 km bike ride this morning looking at damage. There were a lot of trees down but they have been cleared from the secondary roads by now. We did not have media coverage to look at other areas but I noticed 8 dead in 2 different provinces. 6 dead in a landslide.

I don't know why there wasn't more damage unless I missed something.

The typhoon which appeared to hit us directly lasted only 4 hours at high intensity. The back end came through over another 8 hours. So a 12 hour storm.

I will try to provide more details if I have something.

[Banjo]

The Philippines must have one of the highest rates of typhoons nationally.
I recall two in three weeks a few years back with nonstop heavy rain causing more damage from flooding and mudslides than the strong winds.

[murphy]

Glad you're okay.

[Denis-NFA]

Oct 22, 2016 23:57:56 GMT 7 chris said:

We are fine. Salamat po.

We lost all contact for 4 days as our CP batteries ran down. We had no electricity. Obviously no Internet.

I did a 70 km bike ride this morning looking at damage. There were a lot of trees down but they have been cleared from the secondary roads by now. We did not have media coverage to look at other areas but I noticed 8 dead in 2 different provinces. 6 dead in a landslide.

I don't know why there wasn't more damage unless I missed something.

The typhoon which appeared to hit us directly lasted only 4 hours at high intensity. The back end came through over another 8 hours. So a 12 hour storm.

I will try to provide more details if I have something.

Glad to here you are okay.

When I saw the reporting from the Isabela region I thought of you folk over the other side.

All the best.