A shear line, an area where warm and cold winds meet, caused rain clouds to form in the Visayas.
MANILA, Philippines – The death toll from Christmas day rains in southern Philippines has risen to 13, authorities said on Tuesday, December 27, with the search still on for 23 people as floods started to recede.disrupted Christmas celebrations and forced more than 45,000 people to take shelter in evacuation centers, the disaster agency said.
Images on social media show coast guard, police and fire personnel wading through waist-deep floods and carrying residents along landslide-hit areas. Some roads were flooded by overflowing rivers nearby. Rescue operations continued and damage to agriculture was being assessed, Carmelito Heray, head of the disaster agency in Clarin town in Misamis Occidental province, told DZBB.shear line“The big damage here is livestock because their adult pigs, chickens, goats and cows are now gone,” Clarin town mayor Emeterio Roa said on radio. – Rappler.com
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